New Acquisitions – Two Significant Gatherings of Black Activists and Intellectuals
John Hope Franklin Research Center
Meeting of “The Forum,” 1920s, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company Archives
First Edition African and African American Autobiography Biography and Autobiography, Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African... (1782)
Bantu Magazine, 1976, Leroy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive
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The John Hope Franklin Research Center in the Rubenstein Library collects, preserves and promotes the use of published and unpublished primary sources for the exploration, understanding and advancement of scholarship of the history and culture of Africa and people of the African Diaspora in the Americas.
2016-2017 Travel Grant Awards
Congratulations to this year's Glaxo SmithKline travel grant awards to research the collections of the Franklin Research Center and Rubenstein Library
Beatrice Adams, Rutgers University
Erik McDuffie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gretchen Henderson, Georgetown University
Maria Montalvo, Rice University
Nick Witham, University College London, Institute of the Americas
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Traveling Exhibition
John Hope Franklin: Imprint of an American Scholar
This traveling exhibit commemorates Dr. John Hope Franklin (1915-2009), one of the most well-known and influential scholars of his generation. He was the definitition of a public intellectual, and this presentation draws upon the rich documents contained in his personal papers housed in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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John Hope Franklin@100: Scholar, Activist, Citizen
John Hope Frankin: Imprint of An American Scholar Exhibit Online
