Art Agnos

Arthur Christ "Art" Agnos (born September 1, 1938) is an American politician. He served as the 39th mayor of San Francisco, California from 1988 to 1992, and as the Regional Head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 to 2001.

Biography

Early life

Agnos was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bates College and a Master of Social Work from Florida State University. He moved to San Francisco in 1966 and went to work at the San Francisco Housing Authority as a social worker with senior populations. At that time, San Francisco’s senior housing was being built as high-rises that many believed left seniors disconnected from the community. Agnos learned through his involvement in challenging this policy that political decisions can shape the environment for poor and vulnerable people.

On December 13, 1973, Agnos, who was then a member of the California Commission on Aging, was attending a meeting in the largely black public housing project in the San Francisco neighborhood of Potrero Hill, in order to discuss building a publicly funded health clinic in the area. After the meeting concluded, he was shot twice at point blank range; Agnos being one of two victims shot that day in a series of attacks known as the Zebra murders. It was perhaps the first case of urban terrorism in the United States, with random shootings in San Francisco resulting in 16 murders, and eight to ten wounded in waves of attacks throughout 1973 and 1974. The attack were perpetrated by the members of an offshoot of the Nation of Islam, in which so-called "points" were earned by killing a white person. While Agnos survived, the day's other victim, Marietta DiGirolamo, died.

Agnos

Agnos is a French commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Aquitaine region of southwestern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Agnosiens or Agnosiennes

Geography

Agnos is located just 2 km south of Oloron-Sainte-Marie and some 25 km south-west of Pau. It can be accessed on the D155 road from Bidos in the north-east coming south-west to the village then continuing south-east to Gurmençon. The D555 road also passes through the commune from the north and joins the D155 north-east of the village. The commune is mixed farmland and forests with the forests scattered throughout the commune.

Located in the Adour basin, the Mielle river flows from south of the commune forming part of the southern border then continuing north through the village and together with several tributaries rising in the commune joins the Gave d'Oloron north of Oloron-Sainte-Marie.

Places and Hamlets