Sunday, November 15, 2015

Color and Race


Franklin, John Hope, Ed., Color and Race, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.

Available at Daedalus © 1967 American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and continually updated. More than three million copies have been sold. In 1995, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

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