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His classic work, published in 1947 and reissued several times including 2000, one of many influential titles he wrote, was From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans. Find this book in our catalog.

His autobiography was Mirror to America. Find this book in our catalog.

The New York Times wrote this of Dr. Franklin: "During a career of scholarship, teaching and advocacy that spanned more than 70 years, Dr. Franklin was deeply involved in the painful debates that helped reshape America's racial identity, working with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall and other major civil rights figures of the 20th century."