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John Hope Franklin dies

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Staff

Noted historian John Hope Franklin, 94, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at Duke Hospital in Durham. Franklin specialized in the history of the South and the African-American experience, and was the author of the influential book, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans. He also was one of a team of scholars that worked with Thurgood Marshall on the storied Brown v. Board of Education decision, which outlawed separate-but-equal public schools. He was a recipient of the North Carolina Lifetime Achievement Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

“Dr. Franklin was a worldwide figure, a seminal author and a man of immeasurable insight,” said N.C. House Speaker Joe Hackney (D-Orange). “We were privileged in North Carolina for so long to have near immediate access to such a rich mind. We will all miss his lessons and we mourn for his loss.”

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