The John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture
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About the Research Center
The John Hope Franklin Research Center is a repository for African and African American studies documentation and an educational outreach division of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Founded in November 1995 with the support of its namesake, the distinguished historian John Hope Franklin, the Research Center seeks to collect, preserve, and promote the use of library materials bearing on the history of Africa and people of African descent.
New at the Franklin Research Center
Selections from Behind the Veil go digital.
The Behind the Veil Oral History Project was undertaken by Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies from 1993 to 1995. The primary purpose of this project was to record and preserve the living memory of African American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s. A selection of these interviews have been made available as a digital collection, with transcripts, totaling over 175 hours of recordings and 10,000 pages of text. One hundred of these recordings and transcripts are also available through iTunes U. The original interviews were recorded on audio-cassettes and the entire collection is housed at the John Hope Franklin Research Center.
For more information and to listen to these interview, please visit the Behind the Veil Digital Collections' page.
John Hope Franklin, 1915-2009
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John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies
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