BY WALTER OPINDE Shirley Clarke Franklin became Atlanta, Georgia’s first African American female mayor in 2001, as well as the first woman to be a mayor of a major southern city. Clarke was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 10th May, 1945, to parents – Eugene Haywood Clarke and Ruth Lyons Clarke. She attended public schools […]
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