Results for "Franklin, John Hope"

Eyewitness statements compiled by a woman who survived the Tulsa race massacre of 1921... Read More about The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

Widely believed to be the most extreme incident of white racial violence against African Americans in modern United States history, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in the destruction of over one thousand black-owned businesses and homes as well as the murder of between fifty and three hundred ... Read More about Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects, notably in his 3.5-million-copy bestseller, From Slavery to Freedom. Born... Read More about Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin

"My father's life represented many layers of the human experience--freedman and Native American, farmer and rancher, rural educator and urban professional."--John Hope Franklin Buck Colbert Franklin (1879-1960) led an extraordinary life; from his youth in what was then the Indian Territory to his ... Read More about My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin

In Race and History, John Hope Franklin, one of the nation's foremost historians, collects twenty-seven of his most influential shorter writings. The essays are presented thematically and include pieces on southern history; significant but neglected historical figures; historiography; the connection... Read More about Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938--1988

From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plan... Read More about Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation