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Creating Transportation Equity in 2017

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Join the Center for Civil and Human Rights, MARTA and the Partnership for Southern Equity in a community conversation about transportation equity in both the city of Atlanta and our nation. After viewing The Center’s newest exhibition, Courage Under Fire: The 1961 Burning of the Freedom Riders, hear how leaders are moving the needle toward creating a more equitable society through transportation.

Panelists include:

  • Nathaniel Smith, Executive Director of the Partnership for Southern Equity
  • Hank Thomas, Original Freedom Rider and NCCHR Board Member
  • Goldie Taylor, Chief Communications Officer of MARTA

Guests are encouraged to learn more about the continued search for transportation equity by reading the Partnership for Southern Equity resource provided. Click here to read the document. 

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Date:
August 31, 2017
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm