John Hope Franklin, renowned scholar of black history, dies

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 | 5:59 p.m. CDT; updated 9:43 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, March 25, 2009

RALEIGH, N.C. — John Hope Franklin, a revered Duke University historian and scholar of life in the South and the African-American experience in the United States, died Wednesday. He was 94.

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