Later Life
In 2005, at the age of 90, Franklin published and lectured on his new autobiography, Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. In 2006, he received the John W. Kluge Prize and as the recipient lectured on the successes and failures of race relations in America in Where do We Go from Here?
In 2008, Franklin endorsed presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Franklin died at Duke University Medical Center on the morning of March 25, 2009.
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