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Mirror to America audiobook
- By: John Hope Franklin
- Narrator: John Hope Franklin
- Category: History, Social History
- Length: 7 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 15, 2005
- Language: English
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Mirror to America Audiobook Summary
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, the dismantling of legally-protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects, notably in his 3.5 million-copy bestseller, From Slavery to Freedom. And he was, and remains, an active participant.
Born in 1915, he, like every other African American, could not but participate: he was evicted from whites-only train cars, confined to segregated schools, threatened-once with lynching-and consistently met with racism’s denigration of his humanity. And yet he managed to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard, become the first black historian to assume a full-professorship at a white institution, Brooklyn College, be appointed chair of the University of Chicago’s history department, and, later, John B. Duke Professor at Duke University. He has reshaped the way African American history is understood and taught and become one of the world’s most celebrated historians, garnering over 130 honorary degrees. But Franklin’s participation was much more fundamental than that.
From his effort in 1934 to hand President Franklin Roosevelt a petition calling for action in response to the Cordie Cheek lynching, to his 1997 appointment by President Clinton to head the President’s Initiative on Race, and continuing to the present, Franklin has influenced with determination and dignity the nation’s racial conscience. Whether aiding Thurgood Marshall’s preparation for arguing Brown v. Board in 1954, marching to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, or testifying against Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987, Franklin has pushed the national conversation on race towards humanity and equality, a life-long effort that earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 1995.
Intimate, at times revelatory, Mirror to America chronicles Franklin’s life and this nation’s racial transformation in the 20th century, and is a powerful reminder of the extent to which the problem of America remains the problem of color.
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Mirror to America Audiobook Narrator
John Hope Franklin is the narrator of Mirror to America audiobook that was written by 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.
About the Author(s) of Mirror to America
John Hope Franklin is the author of Mirror to America
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Mirror to America Full Details
| Narrator | John Hope Franklin |
| Length | 7 hours 0 minutes |
| Author | John Hope Franklin |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | November 15, 2005 |
| ISBN | 9781593978204 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Mirror to America is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is History, Social History
Additional info
The publisher of the Mirror to America is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781593978204.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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