Historian John Hope Franklin is a pioneer in the field of African American studies. The 90-year-old Duke professor joins us today with a look back at his lifelong commitment to civil rights activism. And jazz great Hank Jones looks back at his amazing career at the piano.
Mirror to America
John Hope Franklin has dedicated his life to scholarship and activism. Throughout his long career he has worked to achieve racial equality in America: he published the best-selling history From Slavery to Freedom in 1947, helped Thurgood Marshall with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, and was appointed to ...

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