| Summary: | Photographer Jack T. Franklin was born on May 7, 1922, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1933, Franklin received his first camera and upon graduating from high school, joined Philadelphia's Merlin Studios as a photographer and darkroom technician. His was later assigned to a photography unit while serving in the U.S. Army. After he was honorably discharged in the 1950s, he began his career as a freelance photographer and worked for several African American publications. During the mid-1960s, he used his camera to chronicle the Civil Rights Movement in Philadelphia and the South, including the March on Washington and the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. In 2002, his work was featured in an exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum titled "Reflections in Black." Franklin's entire body of work, comprised of 400,000 negatives and vintage prints, are housed at the Afro-American Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jack T. Franklin passed away on September 25, 2009.
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