Directory of Ron Franklin’s writings
Black History
African Americans in WW2: The Story of Sgt. Franklin Williams and Ellen Harden
Anita Florence Hemmings: Passing For White At Vassar
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Flight Into History With a Tuskegee Airman
How Otis Redding Got to “The Dock of the Bay”
First Black Female Naval Officers: Frances Wills, Harriet Pickens
How the Peanuts Comic Strip Got its First Black Character
Jackie Robinson Court Martialed for Fighting Discrimination
The Nat King Cole Show: First Black-Hosted TV Variety Show
Hugh Mulzac: First Black Captain of a WW2 Liberty Ship
The Stage Door Canteen and African Americans in WW2
Tuskegee Airmen History: The Freeman Field Mutiny
Real Shoeshine Man Leroy Daniels Danced With Fred Astaire in “The Band Wagon”
How Robert Smalls Seized a Ship to Escape From Slavery to Freedom
Robert Smalls: A Civil War Hero’s Fight for Racial Equality
Why Frederick Douglass Despised, Then Loved Abraham Lincoln
Mary Elizabeth Bowser: Union Spy In The Confederate White House
Gordon Parks Photography: Life in a WW2 Housing Project
Henry Box Brown: The Slave Who Mailed Himself to Freedom
Social Issues
The Confederate Flag: Why “Heritage, Not Hate” Is Irrelevant
Research Says Just Seeing the Confederate Flag Triggers Racism
How the GOP Drives Black Conservatives Away
Clark Gable Desegregated ‘Gone With the Wind’ Movie Set
Should Parents Give Their Children Distinctively “Black” Names?
Civil War
How African Americans Lost Their Gettysburg Address
Civilians in the Siege of Vicksburg: Living in Caves, Eating Rats
Secret Message From 1863 Siege of Vicksburg Decoded
The Fall of Richmond in the Civil War: The Inside Story
Samuel Upham: The Counterfeiter Who Helped Win the Civil War
When Confederates Saluted Ulysses S. Grant Instead of Shooting Him in the Civil War
How Ulysses S. Grant Rose From Store Clerk to General
General George G. Meade: Hero of Gettysburg or Goat?
Civil War Sharpshooters: Col. Hiram Berdan’s Creation
The Fall of Vicksburg: Turning Point of the Civil War
Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Letters of Counsel to His Generals
How Abraham Lincoln Fired General John C. Fremont
Why Abraham Lincoln Refused to Respect Jefferson Davis
What Confederates Said Were the Causes of the Civil War
