- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with John Hope Franklin, July 27, 1990
- Creator:
- Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009
- Contributor to Resource:
- Egerton, John
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1990-07-27
- Subject:
- North Carolina--Race relations
African Americans--Political activity
Tennessee--Race relations
African American college teachers - People:
- Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027 - Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- John Hope Franklin, legendary African American historian, shares some of his recollections from his early life in this interview, including his time spent as chairman of student government at Fisk, teaching at North Carolina College, and his record with the Southern Historical Association. The interviewer proposes some theses about race and history in the American South, and he and Franklin discuss various figures who flitted in and out of Franklin's life, and in and out of southern politics and activism. While Franklin does not offer any lengthy thoughts on race or civil rights in the South, the interview does provide insightful anecdotes about the storied lives of Franklin and his contemporaries.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/A-0339/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 01:00:00.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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