Passages of a people

Reconsidering the history of blacks in America as a series of migrations instead of simple timeline

(Brian Stauffer)

By Kenneth J. Cooper

Globe Correspondent / February 21, 2010

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After the death of John Hope Franklin last year, tributes to the distinguished historian cascaded down. A major newspaper in North Carolina declared that Franklin, who retired from Duke University, “gave definition to the African-American experience.” That was a slight exaggeration, overlooking as it did predecessors such as Carter G. Woodson, creator of what has become Black History Month, but ... (Full article: 898 words)