Announcing The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

Edited by Waldo E. Martin Jr. (University of California, Berkeley) and Patricia Sullivan (Harvard University)

The best scholarship in African American history and culture compels us to expand our sense of who we are as a nation and forces us to engage seriously the experiences of all Americans who have shaped the development of this country. By publishing pathbreaking books informed by several disciplines, the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture will illuminate America's multicultural past and the ways in which it has informed the nation's democratic experiment.


Forthcoming books in The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture:

Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948

by Barbara Dianne Savage

Shows how African American activists, public officials, intellectuals, and artists sought to use radio to influence a national debate about racial inequality.

May 1999
The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South

by Gail Williams O'Brien

A gripping story that helps reveal the history behind African American mistrust of the police and courts.

May 1999

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