Oral history interview with John Hope Franklin, July 27, 1990
Subtitle: interview A-0339, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Egerton, John, interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Race relations; African Americans; Political activity; African American college teachers
Other titles: Interview A-0339, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with John Hope Franklin, July 27, 1990; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: John Hope Franklin, legendary African American historian, shares some of his recollections from his early life in this interview. In some ways, this is more of a conversation than an interview. The interviewer shares his beliefs about race and history in the American South, and he and Franklin chat about various figures who flitted in and out of Franklin's life, and in and out of southern politics and activism. For this reason, Franklin does not offer any lengthy, targeted thoughts on race or civil rights in the South and the interview sometimes reveals more about the interviewer's ideas than Franklin's.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on March 20, 2007).

Interview participants: John Hope Franklin, interviewee; John Egerton, interviewer.

Duration: 01:00:00.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

Text encoded by Mike Millner.  Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.

Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files : 71 kilobytes, 109.9 megabytes.

Original version: Southern Oral History Program collection, (#4007), Series A, Southern politics, interview A-0339, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jovita Flynn. Original transcript: 30 p.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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