 V.P. Franklin
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V.P. Franklin, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Education at the University of California, Riverside. Between 2007 and 2015 he held a University of California Presidential Chair, and is the author or co-editor of eleven books and has published over seventy scholarly articles. His most recent book is The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement (2021). Between 2001 and 2018, Dr. Franklin served as the Editor of The Journal of African American History (JAAH), the leading scholarly publication on African American life and history. Under his editorship, JAAH articles received awards or prizes from the Organization of American Historians, the Association of Black Women Historians, the Southern Historical Association, and other scholarly organizations. Between September 2000 and August 2002, Dr. Franklin was the Rosa and Charles Keller Professor of Arts and Humanities at Xavier University of Louisiana; and in 2005 he held the Fulbright Commission’s Uppsala Chair in American Studies at the Swedish Institute for North American Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. Dr. Franklin has received numerous fellowships, grants, and awards from various agencies and institutions, including the Danforth Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Academy of Education, the National Research Council, and in 2011 he received the Cheikh A. Diop-Ida B. Wells Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Africana Studies from the National Council of Black Studies. Currently, he is completing an anthology on movements for reparations and reparatory justice in the United States.