[2] Franklin received a bachelor's degree from Morehouse College and began a career as a teacher and librarian in Conyers, Georgia.

In 1971, after graduating from Rutgers University with a doctorate in library science, he taught at Queens College.

[3][4] Franklin moved to Washington, D.C. in 1974 to lead the District of Columbia Public Library.

In DC, he led an effort to dedicate a mural to the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and extended the library's online catalog to high schools and the University of the District of Columbia.

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