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The Militant South, 1800-1861

John Hope Franklin

Identifies the factors and causes of the South’s festering propensity for aggression that contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. This title asserts that the South was…

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The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-first Century

John Hope Franklin

This book began as three lectures given at the University of Missouri-Columbia in April 1992, coinciding with the Los Angeles riots. It studies the role of race in both Republican…

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The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860

John Hope Franklin

Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press, this text examines how freed slaves in the antebellum South did not enjoy the full rights of citizenship. Even in North Carolina, reputedly…

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Racial Equality in America

John Hope Franklin

A meditation on the persistent disparity between the goal of racial equality in America and the facts of discrimination. The book traces America’s history of racial inequality, showing that Thomas…

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Mirror to America

John Hope Franklin

Born in 1915, John Hope Franklin lived through America’s most defining 20th-century transformation, the dismantling of segregation. He has influenced with determination and dignity the nation’s racial conscience, earning the…

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A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North

John Hope Franklin

There were thousands of southerners who travelled extensively in the North and who recorded their impressions in letters, articles for the local press, and books. In A Southern Odyssey, John…

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Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988

John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin, one of the US’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…

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George Washington Williams: A Biography

John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin reconstructs the life of the controversial, self-made black intellectual who wrote the first history of African Americans in the United States.

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Visions of a Better Way: A Black Appraisal of Public Schooling

John Hope Franklin,John Hope Franklin

At a time when education has become a major concern of the American people, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has published this third essay in a series…

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Facts of Reconstruction, Race, and Politics: Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin

Eric Anderson,Alfred A. Moss Jr,Eric Anderson

Thirty years after the publication of John Hope Franklin’s influential interpretative essay Reconstruction, ten distinguished scholars have contributed to a new appraisal of Reconstruction scholarship. Recognising Professor Franklin’s major contributions…

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My Life and An Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin

Franklin (1879-1960) led an extraordinary life; from his youth in what was then Indian Territory to his practice of law in 20th-century Tulsa, he was witness to changes in politics…

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Ralph Johnson Bunche: Public Intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate

Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Johnson Bunche (1904-71) was one of the twentieth century’s foremost diplomats and intellectuals. This book assesses Bunche’s historical importance and his enduring impact on higher…

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From Slavery to Freedom

John Hope Franklin,Evelyn Higginbotham

Covering the history of African Americans, this text charts the journey of African Americans from their origins in Africa, through slavery in the Western Hemisphere, struggles for freedom in the…

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Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

E.David Cronon

In the early twentieth century, Marcus Garvey sowed the seeds of a new black pride. Attacked by the black intelligentsia and ridiculed by the white press, this Jamaican immigrant astonished…

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Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

Scott Ellsworth,John Hope Franklin

First published in 1982, this work covers the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. The riot - possibly the worst incidence of racial violence in American history and hushed up for…

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ISE FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM

John Hope Franklin,Evelyn Higginbotham

This edition carries the history of African Americans, and it also draws upon the latest historical scholarship. The new From Slavery to Freedom offers narrative, visual, and interpretive qualities that…

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Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch

John Roy Lynch

Born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, John Roy Lynch (1847-1939) came to adulthood during the Reconstruction Era and lived a public-spirited life for over three decades. His autobiography, Reminiscences…

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One America in the 21st Century: The Report of President Bill Clinton’s Initiative on Race

Represents the report of President Bill Clinton’s Commission on Race Initiative, that contains a comprehensive assessment of racial progress (or the lack thereof) in America since the heyday of the…

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A Fool’s Errand

Albion W. Tourgee

Though the discussion of sectional and racial problems is an important element in the book, A Fool’s Errand has merit as a dramatic narrative-with its love affair, and its moments…

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In Search of the Promised Land

Franklin,Schweninger

In an engaging narrative format, In Search of the Promised Land tells the story of the Thomas-Rapier family of Nashville, following Sally Thomas and her sons James, Henry, and John…

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The Suppression of the Africian Slave Trade, 1638-1870

W. E. B. Du Bois,John Hope Franklin

First published in 1896, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade remains the standard work on the efforts made in the United States, from 1638 to 1870, to limit and…

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Reconstruction after the Civil War, Third Edition

John Hope Franklin

Part of the Chicago History of American Civilization series, which provides a nuanced and vibrant portrait of the United States from its inception through the twentieth century.

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Jim Crow and Me: Stories From My Life As a Civil Rights Lawyer

Solomon S. Seay Jr.,Delores Boyd,John Hope Franklin

Seay’s memoir takes a different tack from most civil rights legal autobiographies: in a series of compact, powerful vignettes, he reveals dramatic courtroom moments; the complex personalities of segregation’s victims…

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Freedom Riders Abridged: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Raymond Arsenault (John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History, John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg)

They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses throughout the American…

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Watermelon Pete and Others

Elizabeth 1866-1922 Gordon

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Watermelon Pete and Others

Elizabeth 1866-1922 Gordon

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The Tiger in the House /; c.1

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The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views

Harold Holzer,Edna G. Medford,Frank J. Williams,John Hope Franklin

This multilayered treatment reveals that the Emancipation Proclamation remains a singularly brave and bold act - brilliantly calculated to maintain the viability of the Union during wartime, dependent on the…

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John Hope Franklin,Evelyn Higginbotham (Harvard University Cambridge)

This edition carries the history of African Americans, and it also draws upon the latest historical scholarship. The new From Slavery to Freedom offers narrative, visual, and interpretive qualities that…

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John Hope Franklin,Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Both at Harvard University)

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The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

Mary E. Jones Parrish

Eyewitness statements compiled by a woman who survived the Tulsa race massacre of 1921

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A Tale of Ambition and Unrealised Hope: John Montagu and Sir John Franklin

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Craig Joel tells how a civil servant came to usurp the GovernorAzAzAzs authority in his desire to curry favour with British ministers, and in the process profoundly affected in political…

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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation

John Hope Franklin (James B. Duke Emeritus Professor of History, James B. Duke Emeritus Professor of History, Duke University),Loren Schweninger (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro)

An examination of slave resistance and runaway slaves in the American South before the Civil War. The book’s hypothesis is that slave resistance was much more prevalent and widespread than…

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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation

John Hope Franklin (James B. Duke Emeritus Professor of History, James B. Duke Emeritus Professor of History, Duke University),Loren Schweninger (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro)

By surveying a wealth of documents, such as planters’ records, petitions to county courts and state legislatures, and local newspapers, the book shows readers how slaves resisted; when, where, and…

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Narrative of a Boat Expedition Up the Wellington Channel in the Year 1852, Under the Command of R. M'Cormick in H.M.B. Forlorn Hope, in Search of Sir John Franklin; With Charts, Illustrations, and Plans of Search.

Robert Maccormick,John Franklin

Title: Narrative of a boat expedition up the Wellington Channel in the year 1852, under the command of R. M'Cormick in H.M.B. Forlorn Hope, in search of Sir John Franklin…

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The Militant South, 1800-1861

The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-first Century

The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860

Racial Equality in America

Mirror to America

A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North

Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988

George Washington Williams: A Biography

Visions of a Better Way: A Black Appraisal of Public Schooling

Facts of Reconstruction, Race, and Politics: Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin

My Life and An Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin

Ralph Johnson Bunche: Public Intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate

From Slavery to Freedom

Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

ISE FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM

Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch

One America in the 21st Century: The Report of President Bill Clinton’s Initiative on Race

A Fool’s Errand

In Search of the Promised Land

The Suppression of the Africian Slave Trade, 1638-1870

Reconstruction after the Civil War, Third Edition

Jim Crow and Me: Stories From My Life As a Civil Rights Lawyer

Freedom Riders Abridged: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Watermelon Pete and Others

Watermelon Pete and Others

The Tiger in the House /; c.1

The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views

Looseleaf for from Slavery to Freedom

The Tiger in the House /; c.1

Gen Combo Looseleaf from Slavery to Freedom; Connect Access Card

The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

A Tale of Ambition and Unrealised Hope: John Montagu and Sir John Franklin

Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation

Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation

Narrative of a Boat Expedition Up the Wellington Channel in the Year 1852, Under the Command of R. M'Cormick in H.M.B. Forlorn Hope, in Search of Sir John Franklin; With Charts, Illustrations, and Plans of Search.

Narrative of a Boat Expedition up the Wellington Channel in the Year 1852, Under the Command of R. M'Cormick, R.N., F.R.C.S., in H.M. B. Forlorn Hope, in Search of Sir John Franklin [microform]: With Chart, Illustrations, and Plans of Search

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