Widely believed to be the most extreme incidence of white racial violence against African Americans in modern United States history, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in the destruction of over one thousand black-owned businesses and homes as well as the murder of between fi…
Franklin's assessment of a widening socio-economic chasm between blacks and whites and his sweeping surveys of racism from the American Revolution to the Civil War and beyond, are hard-hitting. In one essay he links blacks' civil rights struggles to the campaigns of Amerindians,…
Franklin's assessment of a widening socio-economic chasm between blacks and whites and his sweeping surveys of racism from the American Revolution to the Civil War and beyond, are hard-hitting. In one essay he links blacks' civil rights struggles to the campaigns of Amerindians,…
"In The Militant South, 1800-1861, John Hope Franklin identifies the factors and causes of the South's festering propensity for aggression that contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861." "Franklin asserts that the South was dominated by militant white men who resorte…
