John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining
twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally
protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored
that transformation in its myriad aspects, notably in his
3.5-million-copy bestseller, "From Slavery to Freedom." Born in
1915, he, like every other African American, could not help but
participate: he was evicted from whites-only train cars, confined
to segregated schools, threatened--once with lynching--and
consistently subjected to racism's denigration of his humanity. Yet
he managed to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard; become the first black
historian to assume a full professorship at a white institution,
Brooklyn College; and be appointed chair of the University of
Chicago's history department and, later, John B. Duke Professor at
Duke University. He has reshaped the way African American history
is understood and taught and become one of the world's most
celebrated historians, garnering over 130 honorary degrees. But
Franklin's participation was much more fundamental than that.
From his effort in 1934 to hand President Franklin Roosevelt a
petition calling for action in response to the Cordie Cheek
lynching, to his 1997 appointment by President Clinton to head the
President's Initiative on Race, and continuing to the present,
Franklin has influenced with determination and dignity the nation's
racial conscience. Whether aiding Thurgood Marshall's preparation
for arguing "Brown v. Board of Education" in 1954, marching to
Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, or testifying against Robert Bork's
nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987, Franklin has pushed the
national conversation on race toward humanity and equality, a life
long effort that earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the
nation's highest civilian honor, in 1995. Intimate, at times
revelatory, "Mirror to America" chronicles Franklin's life and this
nation's racial transformation in the twentieth century, and is a
powerful reminder of the extent to which the problem of America
remains the problem of color.
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