Esteemed historian John Hope Franklin has passed away. I got to know a little about John Hope while visiting ISIS and working with HASTAC in the building that bears his name (I even passed him in the halls a few times). NPR put together a great piece on him which aired during All Things Considered.
I wanted to pass along this link from Simon Spero. This is a transcript from Grutter v Bollinger, et al., the landmark case where the Supreme Court upheld affirmative action. In it, Franklin recounts his academic training and encounters with institutionalized racism in his work. Franklin tells the story with a historian’s knack – it is hard to imagine this happened so recently.
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