Authors:

John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus at Duke University, and was for seven years Professor of Legal History at Duke University Law School. Born in Oklahoma in 1915, he graduated in 1935 from Fisk University. He received a Master's degree and Doctorate from Harvard University. He was Chairman of the Department of History at Brooklyn College and at the University of Chicago, where he remains the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus. He was a Fullbright Professor at Australia. Dr. Franklin has published many works and most recently he was awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities Charles Frankel Award, presented by President Clinton. He holds one hundred honorary degrees as well as the Congressional Medal of Freedom. He was recently one of seven people chosen by President Clinton for a Presidential advisory board to help foster better race relations in the United States.

 

Alfred A. Moss, Jr.

Alfred A. Moss, Jr. is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. After completing his undergraduate work at Lake Forest College, Dr. Moss received his Masters and Doctorate at the University of Chicago. A graduate of the Episcopal Divinity School, he is also an Episcopal priest. He is also the author of several books and numerous articles.