Anyone familiar with Dr. Franklin knows that he had quite the distinguished career. He is a literal legend in North Carolina - read his bio (below) and you'll see why. If there was anyone that would be easily recognizable in the whole painting, it is he. In other words, don't screw this one up!
Dr. John Hope Franklin (select for larger view)
John Hope Franklin was 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 was a native of
Oklahoma and a graduate of Fisk
University. He received the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Harvard University. He has taught at a
number of institutions, including Fisk University, St. Augustine's College, North Carolina Central University, and Howard University. In 1956 he went to Brooklyn College as Chairman of the
Department of History; and in 1964, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, serving as Chairman
of the Department of History from 1967 to 1970. At Chicago, he was the John
Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor from 1969 to 1982, when he
became Professor Emeritus.
Professor Franklin's
numerous publications include The Emancipation Proclamation, The Militant
South, The Free Negro in North Carolina, Reconstruction After the Civil War,
and A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Ante-bellum North. Perhaps his best
known book is From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans, now in
its seventh edition. His Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities for 1976 was
published in 1985 and received the Clarence L. Holte Literary Prize for that
year. In 1990, a collection of essays covering a teaching and writing career of
fifty years, was published under the title, Race and History: Selected Essays,
1938-1988. In 1993, he published The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-first
Century. Professor Franklin's most recent book, My Life and an Era: The
Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin, is an autobiography of his father that
he edited with his son, John Whittington Franklin. His research at the time of
his death dealt with "Dissidents on the Plantation: Runaway Slaves."
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