Back in 2020, when mandated precautions against COVID-19 forced people of all walks of life to rethink how they did business, Greenville s Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum became more active on
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Betty Franklin attended one of the birthday celebrations for slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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Betty Franklin was among the participants in the 2015 walk to the Edmund Pettus Bridge commemorating the 50th anniversary of Sunday, Bloody Sunday.
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Longtime Greenville civic leader Betty Franklin, who retired in 2020 after 16 years as a Case Manager at Lakes Regional MHMR, was instrumental in creating the oral history project called âThe African American Experience in Hunt County,â which will continue at the Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum through April 24. The exhibit includes various artifacts along with videos with individuals who recall what life was like for the Black Community in Hunt County.