John Hope Franklin’s literary legacy: A chronicle of the African-American experience
Last week, the U.S. lost a seminal historian of the African-American experience when John Hope Franklin passed away. His books, includingFrom Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin, and Reconstruction after the Civil War (The Chicago History of American Civilization), have sold millions of copies and have been required reading at colleges and universities for decades. The Takeaway talks to contributor and Senior Editor at Essence Magazine, Patrik Henry Bass, about John Hope Franklin’s life, work and legacy.
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