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...bridged the gap between black history and American history, documenting how blacks and whites coexisted and how widely their experiences differed. Educated at the historically black Fisk University, Franklin earned two postgraduate degrees from Harvard and in 1995 received a Presidential Medal of Freedom and the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his contribution to African-American history...
Porter served as a research librarian and is now curator emeritus at Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center in Washington...
...built the center from a small, specialized collection to what is one of the largest [Afro-American Studies] collection at any university," said Moorland-Spingarn Director Dr. Thomas Battle...
Died. Arthur Spingarn, 93, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1940 to 1966; in Manhattan. Arthur and Joel Spingarn, sons of a well-to-do Jewish tobacco merchant, were so moved by the 1909 Lincoln Day Call-a manifesto of neo-Abolitionist fervor that urged an uplift movement for blacks-that they joined the founders of the N. A. A.C.P. Joel became the group's second president while Arthur headed its national legal committee. Arthur marched in the streets to protest lynchings, and smashed glasses in the Manhattan saloons that discouraged integrated patronage...
STEPHEN J. SPINGARN Washington...