| LC control no. | no2010024243 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Franklin, Shirley, 1945- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1945-05-10 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Affiliation | Howard University University of Pennsylvania Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Shirley Clarke Franklin & Associates (Firm) |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Mayors |
| Found in | New Ga. encyc., via WWW, Jan. 22, 2010: under Atlanta (Shirley Franklin; first woman to serve as mayor of Atlanta, Ga.) WW on the web, Jan. 22, 2010 (Shirley Clarke Franklin, b. Phila., Pa., May 10, 1945) African American National Biography, accessed January 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Franklin, Shirley; Shirley Clarke; lawyer, mayor; born 10 May 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; BA in Sociology from Howard University (1968); MA in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania (1969); Atlanta's commissioner of cultural affairs (1978); chief administrative officer and city manager in the administration of the civil rights leader and former UN ambassador Mayor Andrew Young (1982); top-ranking woman on the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (1991); CEO and founder of Shirley Clarke Franklin & Associates (1997); first African American to become mayor of Atlanta (2001-2010); honors include, the NAACP Atlanta Chapter Leadership Award (1987); Woman of the Year Award, YWCA (1996, 2002); among five best big-city maoyrs by Time Magazine (2005); first World Chamber of Commerce Visionary Award for International Environmental Stewardship by the World Chamber of Commerce (2009)) |
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