PBKAAGA - Professor Shirley Franklin Speaks at Fall 2014 Membership meeting on November 9: Please Save the Date!

The Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association of Greater Austin

Professor Shirley Franklin Speaks at Fall 2014 Membership meeting on November 9: Please Save the Date!

08 Sep 2014 12:39 PM | Deleted user

Thanks to all our members who were able to join us for former Atlanta mayor Professor Shirley Franklin's talk and conversation on November 9 at our Fall General Meeting. For those of you who could not be there, we hope that you enjoy the video of the event which has been posted on YouTube. To access the video, please click here.

Professor Franklin discussed “what's next” as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of President Johnson's landmark legislation - Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts and the War on Poverty.

Former two-term Mayor of Atlanta Shirley Franklin joined the LBJ School of Public Affairs as the Barbara Jordan Visiting Professor of Ethics and Political Values in 2013. Franklin served as Mayor of the City of Atlanta from 2002 to 2010.

She was the first female to hold the post and became the first African-American woman to be elected mayor of any major Southern city.

Franklin was named Governing magazine’s 2004 Public Official of the Year. In 2005, TIME magazine named her one of the top five mayors in the country and U.S. News and World Report named her one of “America’s Best Leaders”. In 2005, Franklin received the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

After a short business meeting refreshments were served as members socialized. The meeting was hosted by the Graduate Students in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas – Austin.

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