John Hope Franklin

“We ought to devote a little more time to the problems of the mind, the problems of our community and the problems of our relations with each other. That’s what I think the book festival underscores.”   

John Hope Franklin’s lifelong commitment to civil rights earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an appointment from President Clinton to head the President’s Initiative on Race and the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal, among many other honors and awards. His 17 books include the best seller “From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans.”  The Duke University professor emeritus appears in the History & Biography Pavilion on September 30.

Listen as  John Hope Franklin discusses racism in the United States and his recent autobiography “Mirror to America.”

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