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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jack T. Franklin.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jack T. Franklin.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Franklin, Jack T., 1922-
  • Wilson, Shawn
  • Burghelea, Neculai
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 43 min., 7 sec.)) : sound, color.
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.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with Jack T. Franklin
  • Jack T. Franklin
Subject
  • Franklin, Jack T., 1922- > Interviews
  • African Americans > Interviews
  • African Americans
  • Photographer
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
OCLC
1003150460
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jack T. Franklin.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
Playing Time
014307
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Performer
Shawn Wilson, interviewer.
Credits
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Event
Recorded Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2006 December 20.
Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed Term
Photographer.
Added Author
Franklin, Jack T., 1922- interviewee.
Wilson, Shawn, interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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