Author of about a dozen books on various aspects of Southern history, including From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans, the first modern survey of the important role blacks played in American history, he has edited nine other books and taught at some of the country ’s most prestigious universities -like Harvard, Cornell, Duke, Chicago, and the University of California at Berkeley, as well as at England ’s Cambridge University and institutions in Australia and New Zealand. ”įor more than 50 years Franklin has successfully pursued dual roles as academic scholar and social activist. “They didn ’t want me to be inconvenienced. “I was something of a hero, ” he told People magazine. This time it was intended as a tribute to one of America ’s leading historians. But another special office was waiting when Franklin returned for an extended visit in 1967, leading a delegation of his University of Chicago graduate students. The archive ’s director even gave Franklin keys to the manuscript collection so the white assistants would not have to fetch documents for him. Here, Nast represents the United States in the guise of Columbia.When John Hope Franklin arrived at the North Carolina state archives in 1939 to conduct research for his Harvard doctoral dissertation, he had to wait three days for a separate room to be prepared to segregate him from white scholars who were working there. Additionally, the election was divisive because three secessionist states had still not been readmitted to the United States, and thus were not part of the election: Texas, Virginia and Mississippi. The election threatened to stir up some of the divisions that Lincoln had hoped to bury. Seymour, however, was upset by the outcome of the Civil War and he represented the beliefs of many southerners who refused to abandon the idea of white supremacy and southern autonomy. Even though Grant was a war hero, he ran on a platform that promised peace and an end to the divisions that caused the Civil War. Grant, the Republican nominee, against white supremacist New York governor Horatio Seymour, the Democrat. He said, "With malice toward none, with charity for all.let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds." Three years later, the election of 1868 pitted Union war hero Ulysses S.
In March of 1865, one month before the South would surrender and admit defeat in the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln surprised many people by the conciliatory tone of his Inaugural address. (Download full-sized image here.) Creator:
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