"At 12, he rushed to help a blind white woman cross the street in Tulsa, until she commanded him to take his 'filthy hands off her' after realizing he was black. As a college student, he gave a $20 dollar bill to a streetcar worker and asked for change, prompting the man to hurl a racial slur and count out $19.85 in dimes and nickels. As a young scholar, Franklin toiled on his research at the state archives in Raleigh, where he was confined to a tiny room across from the whites-only research room.
"Franklin would not be deterred."
Jane Stancill in Raleigh, North Carolina's The News & Observer reports the death of historian John Hope Franklin.
Peter Applebome in The New York Times writes an appreciation.
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