
In George Washington Williams, John Hope Franklin reconstructs the life of the controversial, self-made black intellectual who wrote the first history of African Americans in the United States. Awarded the Clarence L. Holte Literary Prize, this book traces Franklin's forty-year...

"An extraordinary accomplishment . . . a model biography. . . ."--John W. Blassingame

"An extraordinary accomplishment . . . a model biography. . . ."--John W. Blassingame