Shirley Clarke Franklin is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party who served as the 58th mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, from 2002 to 2010. Franklin was born on May 19, 1945, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls and later received her B.A. in sociology from Howard University. […]

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