Commemorating John Hope Franklin: African American History and the World.

This keynote panel will focus on the international scope of the life and legacy of John Hope Franklin, a pioneering scholar of the African diaspora and civil rights leader, who served as chair of Brooklyn College’s history department in the 1950s.

Speakers
• John Whittington Franklin is Managing Member of Franklin Global LLC and Senior Manager Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture. He has organized a range of conferences on African diasporic topics, and co-edited, with his father, John Hope Franklin, "My Life and an Era: the Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin."

• Nishani Frazier is an associate professor of American Studies and History at the University of Kansas. She served formerly as associate curator of African American History and Archives at Western Reserve Historical Society (WRHS) and as personal assistant for John Hope Franklin, before and during his tenure as chair of President Bill Clinton's "One America" advisory board. She is the author of, "Harambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland, Ohio and the Rise of Black Power Populism."

Moderated by History Professor Gunja SenGupta, author, most recently, of the forthcoming, "Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire."

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