In 2007 Austin was admitted the Walnut Hill's High School Hall of Fame. In 2010 a collection of biographies included one co-written by Austin of African-American Baháʼí Valerie M. Wilson who pioneered to Liberia from Los Angeles with whom Austin was an Auxiliary Board member under Musa Banání and as member of the regional national assembly of north west Africa who died in 1993. In 2011 a Bridgeport, Ohio, student wrote a biography of Austin for class and was mentioned in local newspaper coverage.