The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jack T. Franklin.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jack T. Franklin.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 43 min., 7 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Franklin, Jack T., -- 1922- -- Interviews. African Americans -- Interviews. African Americans. Internet videos. Interviews. Nonfiction films. Oral histories. Oral histories. Internet videos. Nonfiction films.
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11336834

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Jack T. Franklin Jack T. Franklin
Other authors / contributors:	Franklin, Jack T., 1922- interviewee. Wilson, Shawn, interviewer. Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:	digital
Digital file characteristics:	video file
Notes:	Videographer, Neculai Burghelea. Shawn Wilson, interviewer. Recorded Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2006 December 20. Vendor-supplied metadata.
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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Physical Description:	1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 43 min., 7 sec.)) : sound, color. 014307
Playing Time:	01:43:07
Production Credits:	Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.