Auburn University Honors First Black Student With Desegregation Marker

Auburn University Honors First Black Student With Desegregation Marker

November 9, 2021

Auburn University will honor Harold A. Franklin, the university’s first African American student, with a desegregation marker dedication ceremony.

The ceremony will be held on Thursday at the Ralph Brown Draughon Library where a plaza was recently created to accompany the marker, WSFA-TV reported.

Scheduled to speak at the event are Franklin’s son, Harold Franklin Jr., Auburn University President Jay Gogue, Auburn Board of Trustees member Elizabeth Huntley and Kenneth Kelly, a 1990 Auburn graduate and chairman and CEO of First Independence Bank of Detroit.

The honor comes two months after Franklin’s death. He was 88.

Read the source article at Associated Press News

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