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Damilola Familoni. History 245 Honors
John Hope Franklin
In January 2, 1915 John Hope Franklin was born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma to Buck Colbert Franklin and Mollie Lee Franklin only 50 years after slavery had been abolished. John Hope is the fourth child of Buck and Mollie Franklin. They lived in Rentiesville which was an all black town, despite the fact that Franklin's parents were ardent integrationalists. The Franklin family is happy there, but life is made difficult by religious politics. Buck Franklin finally makes a decision to move the family to Tulsa. He establishes a thriving law practice there and by 1925 he sends for the rest of his family to join him. In 1921 riots erupted in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A lot of people were killed when whites, enraged by the success of black businessmen, burn the black section of Tulsa to the ground. Franklin's father was unhurt but in the process he loses everything so the move was caught short and the Franklin family had to stay in rentiesville for four more years. in1922, while traveling from Rentiesville to a nearby town, Mollie and her children accidentally board an all-white compartment on a train. Mollie Franklin protests when the conductor tells her she will have to move her young children while the train is moving. The train is stopped and the Franklins are sent off. John Hope recalls this moment as a defining point at which he dedicated himself to ending segregation. John Hope Franklin is the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, and for seven years was Professor of Legal History in the Law School at Duke University. He is a native of Oklahoma and a graduate of Fisk University which he enrolled in at the age of 16 in the fall of 1931, Franklin has said that, the fact that his brother attended Fisk was one of the reasons he chose the university. It is at Fisk that Franklin met Aurelia Whittington, a North Carolina native and his future wife. He received the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in history from...
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