Books by John Hope Franklin

A partial listing…

1. The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1943.
2. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of American Negroes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.
3. The Militant South, 1800-1861. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1956.
4. Reconstruction: After the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
5. The Emancipation Proclamation. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1963.
6. Color and Race. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
7. An Illustrated History of Black Americans. [Co-edited with the editors of Time-Life Books.] New York: Time-Life Books, 1970.
8. Racial Equality in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
9. A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976.
10. Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century. [Co-edited with August Meier.] Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.
11. George Washington Williams, a Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
12. Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. 450 pp.
13. The Color Line: The Legacy for the Twenty-First Century. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993.
14. African Americans and the Living Constitution. [Co-edited with Genna Rae McNeil.] Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
15. My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin. [Co-edited with John Whittington Franklin.] Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.