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We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

~John Hope Franklin

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It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

~John Hope Franklin

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If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

~John Hope Franklin

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We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

~John Hope Franklin

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: January 2nd, 1915

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