John Hope Franklin: Scholar, Activist, Truth-teller

By Valerie Elverton Dixon
Mar 27, 2009
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John Hope Franklin lived through most of the twentieth century. He was a gentle man, a scholar, an activist, and a truth-teller. He studied history and he helped to make it.

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