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Agnes Scott College
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin Encourages Young Adults to Engage in Politics
May 30th, 2008
Noting the similarities between 1968, the year Shirley Franklin graduated from college and today, Atlanta's first woman mayor called on Agnes Scott College graduates to get involved in the political process to effect social change. Franklin earned her degree in sociology from Howard University in Washington, D.C. in 1968. In that year and now, wars raged in distant places, presidential candidates of markedly different political and demographic stripes were vying for nomination, and young people seemed key to the nation's political and social future, she said. The mayor quoted anthropologist Margaret Mead to sharpen the focus of her message to the...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-05-30)
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