For me, it was a profound indictment of American education that only one of my (white) professional colleagues had ever heard of John Hope Franklin before President Bill Clinton appointed him in 1997 to chair the President’s Initiative on Race. After all, these were all practicing attorneys who graduated from prestigious liberal arts universities. Never… Read more.
John Hope Franklin, distinguished historian, is dead
Friday, March 27, 2009 at 5:26 AM