Race Initiative Board Chief John Hope Franklin to Speak At Northwestern
EVANSTON, Ill. --- John Hope Franklin, the distinguished historian
who recently headed up President Clinton's Race Initiative Advisory
Board, will speak at Northwestern University in two public, free discussions
Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 25 and 26.
The first discussion -- titled "Race and the 2000 Presidential
Election" -- will take place at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 25 in Room 217 of Fisk
Hall, 1845 Sheridan Road, on Northwestern's Evanston campus. The second
-- on "The Historian and American Public Policy" -- will be held at
4 p.m. in Room 104 of Lincoln Hall, Northwestern University School
of Law, 357 E. Chicago Ave., on the Chicago campus. (NOTE: Franklin
will be available to talk with journalists one half hour before each
presentation.)
Ken Bode, dean of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism and
former host of "Washington Week in Review," will moderate both events.
A book signing will follow each presentation.
Franklin's landmark study "From Slavery to Freedom" -- first published
in 1947 and now in its eighth edition and in five languages -- reshaped
the way African American history is understood and taught. A prolific
writer, Franklin earned the 2000 Lincoln Prize for "Runaway Slaves:
Rebels on the Plantation," his most recent book (written with Loren
Schweninger). "Race and History," a collection of essays by Franklin
written between 1938 and 1988, was published in 1990.
Franklin is the James B. Duke Professor of History Emeritus at
Duke University and 1995 winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
-- the nation's highest civilian honor. He is visiting Northwestern
as part of the University's Distinguished Sesquicentennial Visitor
Program. For further information about Franklin's public appearances,
call (847) 491-5255 or e-mail c-moore@northwestern.edu.
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