John Hope Franklin
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University. He has received dozens of major awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his life-long commitment to Civil Rights.
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Mirror to America
- By: John Hope Franklin
- Narrator: John Hope Franklin
- Length: 7 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 15, 2005
- Language: English
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Ninety years of American history as lived by the nation’s preeminent African American historian and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.John Hope Franklin lived through America’s most defining twentieth-century transformation,... Read more
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