Power To Inspire 2025

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Join us for Power to Inspire 2025!

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Honoree: Honorable Shirley Franklin, Former Mayor of Atlanta

The Honorable Shirley Franklin has been a source of inspiration and Atlanta-based community service for decades.   

We hope you will join us as the National Center for Civil and Human Rights honors the former Mayor of Atlanta at our Power to Inspire Celebration on February 27, 2025.  

It is no secret that Mayor Franklin has the Power to Inspire. With this honor, we seek to recognize Franklin’s lifetime of achievement as a mayor, policymaker, educator, and true “public servant.” In all these roles, she made justice and fairness her North Star and worked to improve the health, opportunity, and dignity of everyone she served.  

Franklin’s enduring legacy includes her tireless efforts to create our institution. We will honor her just months before we open an expanded Center, coming ever closer to fulfilling the vision she set out roughly 20 years ago.  

To purchase tickets and to receive additional information about the event, please contact 212-249-6188 or [email protected].    

Additional donations to benefit our annual Power to Inspire fundraiser can be made here. 

About Power to Inspire 

Our Power to Inspire fundraiser is the single largest gathering of The Center’s community each year.  At this event, we celebrate individuals who have made a significant impact to protect the rights of others. Past honorees have included leaders, activists and scholars such as Joe Biden (after his Vice Presidency); Ted Turner; Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; The King Center; and Mrs. Myrlie Evers-Williams.

Support from Power to Inspire ensures The Center can deliver on our mission, inspiring people to tap their own power to change the world around them. The Center, which opened in 2014, hosts iconic exhibitions: selections from the Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection; the history of the civil rights movement in the United States; and stories from the struggle for human rights around the world today. The training and educational programs created by The Center serve as a hub of activity for those who seek to understand and engage in civic life.

If you have questions, please contact us at [email protected].