John Hope Franklin, one of America’s consequential historians, was born on this day in 1915 in Oklahoma. His book, From Slavery to Freedom, was arguably his best work on the life times of Africans in America.
John Hope Franklin at Delaware State University in 2007.
“Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.”
Martin Luther King, Jr, in the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, on allegations that he was a troublemaker from the North.
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