John Hope Franklin Research Center | David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

NC Mutual Life Insurance Company Archives

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)

Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the American South

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John Hope Franklin Research Center in the Rubenstein Library collects, preserves and promotes the use of published and unpublished primary sources for the exploration, understanding and advancement of scholarship of the history and culture of Africa and people of the African Diaspora in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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“The Remains of the Name: The Origin of the Harlem Renaissance in the Discourse of Egyptomania"

Public Lecture by Prof. Robert A. Hill

October 17

5:00PM

Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room

Rubenstein Library

“Chronicling Marcus Garvey and the UNIA: The Process of Research and Writing the African Diaspora”

A Conversation with Profs. Robert A. Hill and Michaeline A. Crichlow

October 18

12:00PM

Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall

John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies

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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