John Hope Franklin Trailers

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John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and continually updated. More than three million copies have been sold. In 1995, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

Most Popular John Hope Franklin Trailers

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First Person Singular: John Hope Franklin Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

Charles Kuralt takes an revealing look at the life and career of African-American historian John Hope Franklin in this profile of the Harvard-educated writer whose book From Slavery to Freedom spotlighted the role of blacks in building America.

The Rise of the Industrial Giants Trailer (1967)

01 January 1967

Surveys the rise to wealth and power by industrial giants with references to Morgan, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Stanford, and Vanderbilt.

The Middle Passage Trailer (1997)

11 December 1997

"Explores the 400-year era of the transatlantic slave trade, when millions of Africans were kidnapped and shipped to the Americas.

From Swastika to Jim Crow Trailer (2000)

01 January 2000

Before and during the Second World War, Jewish intellectuals and scholars who escaped Nazi Germany and immigrated to the U.