from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. from the University of Rochester in American History, an M.A. She is currently chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and has held this position since 2006. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Franklin received honorary degrees from more than one hundred colleges and universities.Įvelyn Brooks Higginbotham is the Victor S. DuBois Award from the Fisk University Alumni Association, the Organization of American Historians' Award for Outstanding Achievement, the NAACP's Spingarn medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1978 Who's Who in America selected him as one of eight Americans who has made significant contributions to society. He was appointed by President Clinton to chair the President's Advisory Board for the One America initiative in June 1997. Franklin served on many national commissions and delegations, including the National Council on the Humanities, the President's Advisory Commission on Ambassadorial Appointments, and the United States delegation to the 21st General Conference of UNESCO. He also served as president of the following organizations:The Southern Historical Association, the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, and the American Historical Association.ĭr. For many years he served on the editorial board of the Journal of Negro History.
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At the time of his death in March 2009, he was engaged in research on "Dissidents on the Plantation: Runaway Slaves."ĭuring his long career, Professor Franklin was active in numerous professional and educational organizations. In 1990 a collection of essays covering a teaching and writing career of fifty years was published as Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988. At Chicago, he was the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor from 1969 to 1982, when he became Professor Emeritus.Īmong his many published works are The Free Negro in North Carolina (1943), Reconstruction after the Civil War (1961), A Southern Odyssey (1971), and perhaps his best-known book, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, now in its ninth edition. In 1956 he went to Brooklyn College as Chair of the Department of History and in 1964, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, serving as Chair of the Department of History from 1967 to 1970.
Augustine’s College, and Howard University. He taught at a number of institutions, including Fisk, St. degrees in history from Harvard University (19). A native of Oklahoma and a graduate of Fisk University (1935), he received the A.M. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, and for seven years was Professor of Legal History at Duke University Law School. CHAPTER 1: Ancestral Africa (circa 500 B.C.E to 1600)ĬHAPTER 2: Africans in the Atlantic World (1492–1800)ĬHAPTER 3: Establishing North American Slavery (1520s to 1720s)ĬHAPTER 4: Eighteenth-Century Slave Societies (1700–1780s)ĬHAPTER 6: Building Communities in the Early Republic (1790–1830)ĬHAPTER 8: Antebellum Free Blacks (1830–1860)ĬHAPTER 9: Abolitionism in Black and White (1820–1860)ĬHAPTER 11: Promises and Pitfalls of Reconstruction (1863–1877)ĬHAPTER 13: The Era of Self-Help (1880–1916)ĬHAPTER 14: In Pursuit of Democracy (1914–1919)ĬHAPTER 15: Voices of Protest (1910–1928)ĬHAPTER 16: The Arts at Home and Abroad (1920s to early 1930s)ĬHAPTER 18: Double V for Victory (1941–1945)ĬHAPTER 19: American Dilemmas (1940–1955)ĬHAPTER 20: We Shall Overcome (1947–1967)ĬHAPTER 22: Progress and Poverty (1980–2000)ĬHAPTER 23: Shifting Terrains in the New Century
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