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Hace 4 días · Named for historian and civil rights advocate John Hope Franklin, whose father survived the massacre, the park features the Tower of Reconciliation, a 25-foot- (7.5-metre-) tall sculpture that commemorates African American struggle.
Hace 4 días · Sir John Franklin, English rear admiral and explorer who led an ill-fated expedition (1845) in search of the Northwest Passage, a Canadian Arctic waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. His ships the Terror and the Erebus were discovered by Canadian expeditions in the 21st century.
Hace 3 días · For a detailed history of runaway slaves, see John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation (2000). Also see the remarkable story of Shadrach Minkins, who ran away from slavery in Virginia, only to be captured in Boston in 1851 under the Fugitive Slave Law.
Hace 3 días · Black history became one of the most dynamic fields of U.S. history, led by scholars such as John Hope Franklin (1915-2009). Self-fashioning changed as natural “Afro” hair styles came into vogue, along with African-derived dress styles such as the dashiki and Kente cloth.
Hace 1 día · Cover of the October 1928 issue of The Negro American with photograph of Miss Erma Sweatt, sister of civil-rights activist Heman Sweatt.The Negro American was a Harlem Renaissance era magazine published in San Antonio, Texas, that declared itself to be "the only magazine in the South devoted to Negro life and culture." This particular issue includes a review of Rudolph Fisher's novel The Walls ...
Hace 4 días · Black told Diverse that he has been inundated with calls and texts after his speech went viral, including a message from U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock. "Dr. Daniel “Danny” Black and I were students together at the AUC," Warnock posted on social media following the commencement address. "He was an upperclassman at Clark College and I a freshman ...
Hace 3 días · Dunbar is the featured speaker for the second installment of this year's John Hope Franklin Symposium, at 7 p.m. Friday in the University of Tulsa's Lorton Performing Arts Center, 550
