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HONOLULU—March 15, 2007—John Hope Franklin and James Oliver Horton, two nationally recognized scholars of African American history, will engage in a conversation that will likely include slavery, “Jim Crow” laws and civil rights. The audience will be invited to join this conversation. This event will take place on Saturday, March 24, from 9 to 11 a.m. in the Ching Conference Center at Chaminade University of Honolulu, 3140 Waialae Avenue.
Sponsored by Chaminade University, the Hawai‘i Council for History Education, the Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities, and University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, “A Conversation with John Hope Franklin and James Oliver Horton” is a free event and open to the public. Teachers attending will also receive lesson plans on African American history that teach directly to the new State Department of Education history standards. For further information, please contact Mitch Yamasaki at myamasak@chaminade.edu or at 735-4824.
John Hope Franklin is the past president of the American Historical Association and Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University. Dr. Franklin received his doctorate in history from Harvard University in 1941. His book From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, has sold more than three million copies. Dr. Franklin worked on school desegregation with the NAACP Legal Defense team in the early 1950s, leading to the celebrated United States Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. In 1995, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
James Oliver Horton is the past president of the Organization of American Historians and professor of American studies and history at George Washington University. Dr. Horton received his doctorate in history from Brandeis University in 1973. He has published numerous books in African American history, including Hard Road to Freedom: the Story of African America in 2001. In 1993, Dr. Horton was appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to the National Park System Advisory Board. In 1995, the Afro-American Museum of Boston presented him with its “Living Legend Award.”
