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Date of Birth
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02-January-1915
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Place of Birth
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Rentiesville
(United States of America, McIntosh County, Oklahoma)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Professor John Hope Franklin
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Profession
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Historian, Writer, Author, Professor
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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.
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