@article{1385489,
      recid = {1385489},
      author = {Franklin, John Hope,},
      title = {Race and history : selected essays 1938-1988 /},
      pages = {xi, 450 pages ;},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {Franklin's assessment of a widening socio-economic chasm  between blacks and whites and his sweeping surveys of  racism from the American Revolution to the Civil War and  beyond, are hard-hitting. In one essay he links blacks'  civil rights struggles to the campaigns of Amerindians,  Puerto Ricans and Mexican-Americans for full equality.  There are sharp profiles of James Ayers, white Civil War  recruiter of black soldiers, and of Mississippi freedman  John Lynch, who became a Republican Congressman and  paymaster of the U.S. Army. Franklin insists that  historians can play an active role in shaping public  policy. He writes movingly of his first encounter with  racism at age 16, and its searing effects. ISBN  0-8071-1547-9: $29.95.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1385489},
}