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SUMMARY:Friends of the Library - Mayor Elzie Odom to speak
DESCRIPTION:
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 Friends of the Library meeting\n
 November 16, 
 2012\n
 7:30pm\n
 Central Library Sixth Floor parlor\n
 \n
 Elzie 
 D. Odom, the City of Arlington's 
 first African American mayor and the descendant 
 of a slave who settled in Texas shortly 
 after the Civil War, has written a memoir to 
 serve as a "compilation of his life, spanning 
 eight decades through key milestones in our 
 nation's history." \n
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 Born in Shankleville in 
 southeast Texas, Odom has many "firsts" to 
 his name. He was the first black elected school 
 board official in Orange County, Texas, and 
 helped with the desegregation process; he was 
 the first African American postal inspector 
 in the State of Texas, at that time one of 
 only five in the nation, and he was the first 
 black to serve on the Arlington City Council, 
 in 1990. He served as mayor from 1997 to 2003. 
 \n
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 This meeting is also the annual presentation 
 of the McNair Scholarship Awards, presented 
 by the Friends of the UTA Library to two 
 students in the McNair program.\n
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 The meeting 
 is free and open to all. For more information 
 contact Maggie Dwyer at 817-272-5366 or 
 dwyer@uta.edu. To RSVP please call 817-272-1413 
 or email LibraryFriends@uta.edu .\n
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 Price: free and open to all\n
 Sponsor: University of Texas at Arlington Library\n
 Homepage: http://www.uta.edu/library/\n
 Phone: 817-272-1413\n
 E-Mail:: LibraryFriends@uta.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://www.uta.edu/library/friends/programs.php\n
LOCATION:Central Library sixth floor parlor
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