John Hope Franklin Quotes
We’re always talking about blacks as a group and whites as individuals.
John Hope Franklin, 1915–2009, Historian, Quoted in New York Times Magazine, April 23, 1995
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A Southern Republican congressman with a voting record that was against minority interest, for the first time in American, interrupted and insulted the President of the United States in the midst of an invited Presidential Address to Congress given by Barack Obama, calling him a liar. Carter, himself a Southerner, recognized the motivation.
Jackson was a civil rights worker who was murdered by white racists trying to intimidate Blacks from their desegregation efforts. King broadened the moral responsibility to those who did not oppose the segregationist system prevalent in the South.
At the time, it was the Nazis who dressed in black as did right wing extemists throughout much of the world, In England the Fascists were referred to as “Black Shirts.”
Booth was the younger son of a very prominent Northern family of actors. His older brother was considered the greatest American actor, and the rest of the family were abolitionists and vehement Union supporters. They found young John’s views reprehensible.
Surprising to most people who know of President Theodore Roosevelt’s general liberals, his 4th son was an ultraconservative who founded and joined racist, anti-Semitic, right wing organizations, and to the distress of many in the family and without lent his name to many of the most extreme right wing causes and organizations.
Johnson was the first Black man who won the heavyweight championship at a time when racism in America was rampant. Many whites referred to Jeffries as “The Great White Hope” who would take the champion back for the whites. He didn’t and was beaten badly.
John Hope Franklin was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and continually updated. More than three million copies have been sold. In 1995, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.
