- Collection:
- Southern Journey Oral History Collection
- Title:
- North Carolina - Durham: John Hope Franklin
- Contributor to Resource:
- Franklin, John Hope
Bush, George, 1924-
Dent, Thomas C. - Publisher:
- New Orleans, La. : Tulane University Digital Library
- Date of Original:
- 1991-06-12
- Subject:
- African Americans
Civil rights demonstrations
Segregation
Education
Durham (N.C.) - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Durham County, Durham, 35.99403, -78.89862
- Medium:
- video recordings (physical artifacts)
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Tom Dent interviews John Hope Franklin over the telephone [recording cuts out in places]. Franklin is in Durham, North Carolina. He is originally from Oklahoma. He lived in North Carolina previously, left in 1947 and returned in 1980. He now teaches at Duke University. He talks about North Carolina as a progressive state and about the research he has done on African Americans in North Carolina. He compares the communities of Durham and Greensboro, discussing the Sit-in movement. He talks about what bothers him currently in the community and the decline of the cities. He criticizes George H.W. Bush's presidency and laments the problems with leadership. They discuss the decline of the Black main street.
reference@amistadresearchcenter.org - Metadata URL:
- https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:53716
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Physical rights are retained by the Amistad Research Center. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.
- Extent:
- 00:31:02
- Original Collection:
- www.amistadresearchcenter.org
- Contributing Institution:
- Amistad Research Center
- Rights:
-
