John Hope Franklin, whose Tulsa childhood helped shape an internationally acclaimed career as a scholar, writer and lecturer, died Wednesday morning in a Durham, N.C., hospital. He was 94.

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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. presents a tribute to the late Dr. John Hope Franklin, a native of Oklahoma and alumnus of Fisk University and Harvard, and the ...

Franklin Scholars program offer Durham students a rare opportunity at hands-on historical research On a humid, late Monday June morning, more than a dozen middle schoolers sat in a bright, sun-filled ...

The Feds were keeping tabs on John Hope Franklin in the 1960s, keeping a file on him for his beef with the House Committee on Un-American Activities and for his support of W.E.B. DuBois. From TPM: ...

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John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park, which memorializes Tulsa’s bleakest days and one of its most distinguished sons, has been added to the National Park Service’s African American Civil Rights ...

Like many scholars of African American history, Kellie Carter Jackson knows quite a lot about the violence inflicted on Black people in this country. Her quest for understanding, though, goes a step ...

The fifth John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation symposium is taking a different direction than its earlier versions.

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John Hope Franklin — the Tulsan who largely invented the field of black history — died Wednesday in Durham, N.C. He is remembered proudly as a gentle but forceful academic, who used his knowledge as a ...