![]() ![]() ![]() What about that awful period since slavery - Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and all the rest? And what about the enormous wealth that was built up by Black labor? If I was sitting on a billion dollars that someone had made when I sat on them, I probably would not be slow to apologize, if that’s all it takes. People are running around apologizing for slavery. Here is another quote from Franklin, on reparations in Indyweek, historians in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March. (His father Buck Colbert Franklin was a lawyer and is best known for defending African-American survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.)įranklin is seen in the photo to the right with other U.S. John Hope Franklin, one of the most important historians of the 20th century, was born Jan. John Hope Franklin in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March. ![]()
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