Yay! student protests saved ICB and LGBT programs
After protests by students, Patricia Telles–Irvin, UF’s vice president of Student Affairs, stated that ICB and LGBT programs will be retained. Good work!
Proposal Eliminates Institute of Black Culture and LGBT
The Alligator reported today, April 21, 2009, that if the University of Florida needs to make “worst-case scenario” cuts, the Institute of Black Culture and LGBT Affairs will be eliminated. Apparently because these are the only programs in Student Affairs that aren’t mandated by law.
College is a time when young adults are solidifying their identities, as people and members of groups. This is a time when many folks explore their history, ethnicity, and sexuality. The university has a responsibility to support students in their exploration.
This is one of the reasons that I thnk the library needs good collections in African American Studies, Latino Studies, LGBT Studies, etc. And why the university needs to maintain its multicultural and gender programs. The student government is suggesting that a fee be added to tutition so that these programs could be saved.
I think that this is a good use for stimulus money. Anything that helps support students and encourage them to remain in college is good for the the economy.
Join the protest!
John Hope Franklin made History for All of Us.
My mother once told me she didn’t enjoy history in school, because she could never find herself in her history books. We’re Eastern European Jews and back when my mom was a kid, you couldn’t find us anywhere.
Then came John Hope Franklin, whose great scholarship made history inclusive. After a long struggle, folks recognized that American history is fragmentary if limited only to white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant men. Even though Prof. Franklin lived to the old age of 94, he still died too young. But he made the world a much better place for the rest of us.
His obituary from the Washington Post.
A list of some of his books that we have in the library or are available through the library online:
In search of the promised land : a slave family in the Old South
John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
LIBRARY WEST General Collection E444 .F825 2006
Mirror to America : the autobiography of John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
LIBRARY WEST General Collection E175.5.F73 A3 2005
Tributes to John Hope Franklin : scholar, mentor, father, friend
edited by Beverly Jarrett.
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2003.
LIBRARY WEST General Collection E175.5.F73 T75 2003
From slavery to freedom : a history of African Americans
John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss, Jr.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: New York : A.A Knopf, 2000.
LIBRARY WEST General Collection E185 .F825 2000
Runaway slaves : rebels on the plantation
John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
LIBRARY WEST General Collection E447 .F7 1999
The diary of James T. Ayers, Civil War recruiter
edited, with a new preface, by John Hope Franklin ; with a new introduction by John David Smith.
Author: Ayers, James T. 1805-1865
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1999.
LIBRARY WEST General Collection E540.N3 A96 1999
My life and an era : the autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin
edited by John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin.
Author: Franklin, Buck Colbert 1879-1960
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1997.
LEGAL INFORMATION CENTER General Collection KF373.F745 A3 1997
The color line legacy for the twenty-first century
John Hope Franklin.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c1993.
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Race and history selected essays, 1938-1988
John Hope Franklin.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1989.
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Visions of a better way : a Black appraisal of public schooling
preface by John Hope Franklin.
Author: Joint Center for Political Studies (U.S.) Committee on Policy for Racial Justice
Published: Washington, D.C. : Joint Center for Political Studies Press ; Lanham, MD : Distributed by University Press of America, 1989.
EDUCATION LIBRARY General Collection LC2771 .J65 1989
A southern odyssey : travelers in the antebellum North
John Hope Franklin.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1976.
LIBRARY WEST General CollectionF213 .F76
The historian and public policy.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: [Chicago] University of Chicago, Center for Policy Study [1974]
LIBRARY WEST General Collection E169.1 .F826
The free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860
John Hope Franklin ; with a new foreword and bibliographic afterword by the author.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: Chapel Hill, NC : The University of North Carolina Press, c1995.
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Runaway slaves rebels on the plantation
John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Racial equality in America
John Hope Franklin.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1993.
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The militant South, 1800-1861
John Hope Franklin.
Author: Franklin, John Hope 1915-
Published: Cambridge : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970.
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