John Hope Franklin from Slavery to Freedom a History of American Negroes (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In 1947 John Hope Franklin, then a professor of history at North Carolina College for Negroes, wrote From Slavery to Freedom. Now in its eighth edition, that book, which redefined our understanding of American history, remains the preeminent record of the African American experience. With it and a dozen other books, Franklin has been established as the intellectual father of black studies.Tributes to John Hope Franklin focuses on this esteemed scholars academic achievements, his humanitarian contributions, and his extraordinary legacy. This collection of comments by Franklins students, colleagues, family, and friends captures the man and his work for future generations. Tributes offered by Franklins admirers, Walter B. Hill Jr., David Levering Lewis, Alfred A. Moss Jr., Darlene Clark Hine, Loren Schweninger, Daryl Michael Scott, George M. Fredrickson, Mary Frances Berry, and many others, attest to Franklins commitment to his intellectual pursuits, to public service, and, most important, to his students.Franklins dedication to mentoring those who sought his help, as well as providing for his family, is beyond compare. In one essay, John W. Franklin offers an inside view of growing up with John Hope and Aurelia Franklin, detailing the travels and associations that were a part of his experience as their son. Alfred Moss, coauthor of the last three editions of From Slavery to Freedom, shares special images of Franklin as mentor to a young Anglican priest.Genna Rae McNeil shows us the quintessential teacher through the eyes of a passionate young scholar beginning her own voyage into the study of American history. George Fredrickson takes on the challenge of explaining the complexity of the work of this man who has been both a fervent proponent of racial equality and a practitioner of detached, objective, dispassionate historical scholarship.Each of the pieces-by men and by women, by blacks and by whites, by several generations of participants in the twentieth centurys journey toward a better America-recalls for us what a vital role John Hope Franklin has played in that voyage. Tributes to John Hope Franklin is a joy to read and an incredible opportunity to celebrate a life and a body of historical work dedicated to achieving and sharing the wisdom that scholarly excellence provides.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.45.

Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2001. A few illustrations in b/w. XXIV+742. Orig. boards in dust wrappers. Near fine/ near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 639 pp., plus xlii pp. index. Stated seventh printing (July, 1965) of revised and enlarged second edition originally published in 1956. Moderate shelf and handling wear. Slight lean to spine; occasional underlining and notes jotted in margins. Corners of boards and head and tail of spine bumped and scuffed. Erasure smudging to front pastedown and visible erasure of penciled marks on ffep. Dustjacket shows considerable wear, with creases, tears, chips, and fading; it is now enclosed in a protective mylar cover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 664pp. Tan cloth hardback, no DJ, Fifth Printing, light finger smudge on outer page edge, index, bibliographical notes, c.13pp pencil underlining in bibliographical notes, pencil marks in table of contents, b&w photos, From Slavery to Freedom : A History of American Negroes,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8.5 x 6", embossed cloth, 639pp + xlii index, covers a little rubbed, extremities bumped, an old Hudson's Bookshop sticker inside rear cover else a nice copy in a rubbed, edge-worn/chipped/creased/torn, spine sunned dustjacket. Second Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. xv, 639, xlii pp. Scarlet boards, gilt lettering to spine, yellow head edge. A bit of rubbing to extremities, sharp and clean otherwise. DJ some shelf wear, a few small tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The cover has black cloth. 30 chapters; b/w photos and other illustrations; notes; 42 page index. About a third of the front board has sheen loss caused by a water splash. The spine strip is a little faded. The board has light, shelf wear rubbing. The front endpaper has an owner's name. The back endpaper has an owner's name, a previous price, a note, and a one-line doodle. Scans e-mailed upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. A Very Good or slightly better copy in maroon cloth lettered in gold, in a lightly edge-worn Very Good dust jacket. Small 1956 owner's name inside the front cover. The binding is sound, the text is clean/unmarked, and there is little wear to the covers. The first printing of the 1956 revised and expanded second edition. (Not ex-library.). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Fourth printing. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (22cm x 15cm x 4cm). Pp. xv, 622, xlii. Publisher's original cloth, fore edge rough-cut, illustrated, rear index. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Spine cloth faded and marked. Contents largely very clean. A sound copy supplied without a dust jacket. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: NEAR FINE. First Edition, First Printing. xv, [3], 3-622, xlii, colophon, [5] pp., with all 15 B/W plates present. 12mo, black finished cloth. Gilt lettered and ruled spine with gilt stamped broken manacle and vine, blind-stamped and ruled decal to front cover. Fore corners just lightly bumped, otherwise exceedingly and uncommonly clean and sharp with tight binding, bright gilt, and unfaded cloth. Stated First Edition of one of the great works in American History, the seminal account of the Black American experience which has gone on to sell over 3 million copies.

Hardcover. First edition, third printing. This is an inscribed author's presentation copy of the first edition, third printing. The book has been called "a landmark in the interpretation of American civilization" and its author "one of the most remarkable Americans of the 20th century the master of the great American story of that century, the story of race." In four lines in black ink on the front free endpaper recto the author wrote: "For Steve Walter, | with the admiration and | best wishes of | John Hope Franklin". This third printing was published in July 1948, following the first and second printings of September 1947 and February 1948. Condition is very good in a good minus dust jacket. The black cloth binding printed and illustrated in gilt and blind is square, tight, clean, and unfaded, with sharp corners. We note some wrinkling to the spine and a little unobtrusive mottling to the buckram. The contents are clean with no spotting and no previous ownership marks other than the author's inscription. The page edges are likewise clean, the green top stain uniform and unfaded. The dust jacket shows considerable wear, including a split rear hinge, but is nonetheless substantially complete, with a neatly clipped upper front flap (a "$3.75" price is intact on the lower front flap) and minor loss primarily confined to the flap fold and hinge corners. The spine is quite significantly scuffed and wrinkled, particularly the upper spine, while wear to the faces is mostly to the extremities. The jacket is now protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.Historian, author, civil rights activist, and public intellectual, John Hope Franklin (1915-2009) accumulated an improbable myriad of firsts and accolades in his long, accomplished life. "Franklin was often the first black person to hold chairs, positions, and organizational presidencies, paving the way for many future scholars of color in all academic fields." Testifying to Franklin's fame and prestige, former President Clinton awarded Franklin the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995, the nation's highest civilian honor, and spoke at a memorial service for him in June 2009.Beyond the accolades, Franklin's most important legacy was his scholarship. "Most of Franklin's scholarship, which would eventually comprise some twenty-five books and more than one hundred articles, was at the intersection of southern history and African American history." From Slavery to Freedom, "a survey of African American history that revolutionized the field", was Franklin's "most important book." The book's impact may be difficult to overstate. It would be translated into multiple languages, including Japanese, French, German, Chinese, and Spanish, and sell more than three million copies. From Slavery to Freedom "catapulted Franklin to prominence, while making it possible for African American history to be taught outside of historically black colleges and universities." A decade and a half after it was first published in 1947, "when majority white colleges began offering courses in black history, Franklin's book, by then in its third edition, was the most commonly used text." (ODNB).

HARD COVER BLACK. Condition: Good++. JACKET: TORN. 4TH PRTG. Book has general shelf wear, light foxing to end pages, good binding, clean body and unmarked text, bright gold gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket has general wear, foxing on inside of DJ, flaps detached but present, price clipped, creased/chipped edges, in Mylar protective cover. DATE PUBLISHED: 1950 JAN EDITION: 4TH PRTG 622+INDEX.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Octavo, red cloth lettered in gilt; dust jacket, with slight edge-wear. Second edition, revised and enlarged. A presentation copy, inscribed: "For Hon. Philip C. Jessup, with the cordial good wishes of John Hope Franklin," on the front endpaper. ---- Jessup, a judge on the International Court of Justice, was credited with playing a major role in ending the Soviet blockade of West Berlin. Jessup was a U.S. representative to the United Nations General Assembly, as well as a member of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. He also served as a U.S. ambassador at large from 1949 until his resignation in 1953. During that time, he was one of the closest advisers of then-Secretary of State Dean Acheson. After Jessup was maligned by Senator Joe McCarthy for purported communist "affinities," Dwight D. Eisenhower heralded Jessup's "devotion to the principles of Americanism." McCarthy's charges kept Jessup from being reappointed to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations in 1951 but President Harry S. Truman made him an alternate delegate the following year. At times Jessup and Franklin traveled in the same circles. In 1955, for instance, both men published articles in the Political Science Quarterly. They also delivered University of Michigan commencement addresses. A lovely copy of Franklin's seminal history of African Americans with a most distinguished provenance. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1947. 622 pages plus 42 page index. First edition stated, first printing. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Pages and endpapers are clean and bright. Black cloth panels with gilt stamped titles on spine. Black cloth is clean; titles bright and unmarred. One cornertip is gently pushed, barely. Base of backstrip spine has a faint tape-ghost that has been neutralized with a small square of glossy finish; hardly of note. This is a very nice copy. From Slavery to Freedom is a monumental book that was the first to infuse oppressed, and neglected, African-American history into the historical fabric of America, fairly and accurately. This title has sold over 3 million copies, and is still in print today. John Hope Franklin is the grandson of a slave owned by Indians, and grew up outside of Tulsa; experiencing the Tulsa Race Riots as a child. He graduated from Fisk University, and later received his doctorate from Harvard. As an influential historian, he worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois, and Thurgood Marshall (working with him on Brown v. Board of Education.) The Washington Post has called JHF "one of the most remarkable Americans of the 20th century." This is his groundbreaking, landmark title; in the first edition, first printing. A plum for any serious collector of American history, and African-American achievement. Rare in first printing. VG+.

First edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by John Hope Franklin on the half title, inscribed to former owner. xvi, 622, xlii, [ii] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, front stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+, front hinge cracked, wear along bottom edge, in a Very Good dust jacket with some tape mends to both sides, edge wear, unclipped ($5.00 net). Franklin, the grandson of a slave owned by Native Americans, wrote this landmark survey of the Black experience in America which has sold more than three million copies and remains in print today.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1947. 622 pages plus 42 page index.First edition stated, first printing. Signed and inscribed by the author, celebrated historian and Congressional Medal of Freedom recipient, John Hope Franklin. Front endpaper reads: For ___/ With Best Wishes of/ John Hope Franklin/ February 10, 1948. Inscribed by the author just months after the book's initial publication. Underneath the DJ flap on the front pastedown is a neatly written date of 1948, and a previous owner's signature that matches the author's inscription dedication. The recipient, like the author's wife, was a librarian; and FWIW, at Atlanta University, now Clark Atlanta University, noted HBCU. As for the book, publisher's blind-stamped black cloth with gilt titles on backstrip; top edge stained a faint pale green. Black cloth shows a few topical instances of white marking; slight mottling to rear panel. Minor, light shelf-rubbing. Minor faint soiling to endpapers. Faint charcoal smudge at base of flyleaf verso near gutter. Half-title page shows faint crease at upper right corner. Original DJ with manufacturer's $5.00 price printed on upper flap corner. DJ shows light rubbing with shallow edge chipping. Heel of DJ spine shows an open chip backed with removable black backing matching DJ color. From Slavery to Freedom is a monumental book that was the first to infuse oppressed, and neglected, African-American history into the historical fabric of America, fairly and accurately. This title has sold over 3 million copies, and is still in print today. John Hope Franklin is the grandson of a slave owned by Indians, and grew up outside of Tulsa; experiencing the Tulsa race riots as a child. He graduated from Fisk University, and later received his doctorate from Harvard. As an influential historian, he worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois, and Thurgood Marshall (working with him on Brown v. Board of Education.) The Washington Post has called JHF "one of the most remarkable Americans of the 20th century." This is his groundbreaking, landmark title; in the first edition, first printing, in original DJ, signed. A plum for any serious collector of American history, and African-American achievement. Signed by Author(s).