The noted historian, John Hope Franklin, died yesterday at the age of 94. His most important book was probably From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, though he authored many others. Walter Dellinger has a rememberance of Franklin in the Washington Post. It begins:

John Hope Franklin, who died yesterday at 94, was one of the most remarkable Americans of the 20th century. He was the master of the great American story of that century, the story of race. John Hope wrote it, he taught it, and he lived it.