These programs were well received by the public and gave aspiring young African American youth the opportunity to meet role models who encouraged them to develop their talents and skills in this field of artistic endeavor. Stratton served as the first national corresponding secretary and as president of the Philadelphia (PA) Chapter. Her stellar work and staunch commitment have earned her numerous national, regional, state and local awards. On November 9, 1946, the Links organization gathered for their first National Assembly, with delegates present from chapters that had been established in Atlantic City, New Jersey; Baltimore Maryland; Central New Jersey; Petersburg, Virginia; Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; St. Louis, Missouri; Wilmington, As a professional, for a ten-year period, she worked as an attorney for the Federal Communications Commission, Broadcast Bureau, Washington, D. C., where she became chief of the Complaints Branch. She launched innovative programs like Operation Positive Direction, a mentoring program that empowers at-risk students through tutoring, community service, and positive incentives. She was the first Black woman to receive a Ph.D. in history at Ohio State University. She remained an activist in the community, working as a senior aide to Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II, volunteering for Senator John Kerrys reelection campaign, and working for Senator Kerry for 13 years in a variety of roles, including constituency director and political director. She served as President and Chairman of the Board of the Seattle First Baptist Church Corporation; member of the Board of Managers of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and president of the women of her church. Leonard earned a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Psychology from Howard University and a Master of Science Degree from North Carolina Central University. Later she attended schools in Cleveland. She was appointed national vice president in 1995. Her Aunt, Jessie Mae Schultz Finley, taught her to play the piano when she was very young and her uncle, James Samuel Schultz, a merchant mariner during World War II, sponsored her matriculation at Howard University after she finished high school. Dr. Glover also served as Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Jackson (Mississippi) Airport Authority. Prior to her corporate work, Smith spent several years as university administrator in varied capacities. She is a charter member of the South Suburban Chicago (IL) Chapter located in the Central Area. She was a member of the originating Zeta Organizational Leadership committee. While Dean of the College of Business at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi from 1994 to 2012, Dr. Glover led the College of Business through the accreditation process and spearheaded the implementation of the nations first Ph.D. program in Business at a HBCU. The Durham (NC) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated Historical Overview The Durham (NC) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated was chartered on October 11, 1958 as the seventy-seventh chapter of the national body. As Deputy, Campbell serves as an advisor to the Capitol Police Board, House Emergency Management Team, and Joint Congressional Continuity Board. She was the youngest of two daughters of David and Anna Rosell. A proven and dedicated mentor, she has spearheaded the growth of Sigma Gamma Rho in the Southeastern Region since 2016, serving in several leadership roles, including international first vice-president, Southeastern Region director and as international editor-in-chief. Born in Miami, Congresswoman Wilson learned the value of public service and community activism from her parents. Copeland was a delegate to the White House Conference on Americas Future. Ellison also served terms on two other County Commissionsthe Equal Employment Opportunity and the Civil Service Commissions. Prior to being re-elected as National President, Kornisha served as the 2017-2019 Regional Director of the Southeastern Region. Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Community Service Award. During her tenure, the district has received $3.1 billion in grants, contracts, and other assistance. Purnell completed her undergraduate work at Allen University where she majored in psychology, minored in education, and graduated with honors. Her parents were activists, instilling Vice President Harris with a strong sense of justice. Rice, Mayor of Seattle, proclaimed November 4, 1990, as Marion Schultz Sutherland Day. 2nd National President and Co-Founder Philadelphia (PA) Chapter Over our 75 year history, 17 trailblazing women have served at the helm of The Links, Incorporated. She has traveled across America, South America, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Australia, Asia, South Africa and West Africa. For the past 17 years she has served as National President, First Vice President of Programs, Vice President of Finance and Fund Development, National Treasurer and chaired several national committees. Hudgins further recalled that during her administration Maloney had widened the scope of the organizations concerns to include the international scene by directing attention to the problems of the emerging African nations. She was also responsible for the administration of all Georgia GED testing and supported local literacy action groups throughout Georgia. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Anthropological Association, and a member of the Association of Black Anthropologists. A leading political newspaper has dubbed her relentless attention to this human rights crisis Frederica Wilsons War.. One aspect of her company focuses on teaching the tools that will result in effective communication, savvy navigation and appropriate advocacy. Campbell was educated at the Johns Hopkins University (MS), and the University of Florida (BS). Since joining the organization in 2010 and heading it since 2014, she has transformed AARP into a leader in social change, dedicated to empowering people to choose how they live and age. Purnell has also studied at Louisiana State University, Syracuse University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana. In 2006, she was named a History Maker by The HistoryMakers (thehistorymakers.com), a national African American historical registry which is housed in United States Library of Congress. from Baylor University in Waco, Texas and has continued post-doctoral study at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois and the University of Washington in Seattle. The Links, Incorporated, organization of African American women founded in 1946 that is devoted to strengthening African American communities through fund-raising, education, advocacy, and volunteering. The annual conference affords young scholars opportunity to present and critique their ongoing research. However, she is probably best remembered at Girls High for leading her black classmates in a determined effort to attend the annual and, at that time, all-white senior prom. She retired from the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners in July 2006, as County Auditor after 20 years of service. She has been appointed by multiple DC superintendents to the federally-mandated State Title I Committee of Practitioners, and she has been elected as chair for four consecutive years. Her contributions to The Links, Incorporated was most outstanding. Leonard, a Fayetteville native and graduate of Reid Ross High School, has a broad background in public health. -Gleason family of Manhattan's Lower West Side had been on waterfront since 1888. As faculty, she has taught courses in both Psychology and African American Studies departments. 83, the Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act of 2013. In The Links Souvenir Journal celebrating the 25th anniversary of the organization, editor Will Florence Robbins Hudgins had saluted Maloney for her excellent leadership, which had brought the group to the climax of its first decade. Under her wise and dynamic leadership, Educating for Democracy was adopted as the theme for the national program and the pledge to search for talented and/or gifted youth was implemented as an extension of the organizations Services for Youth project. She received a Masters of Education Degree in Social Science Education from the University of Georgia. In her new role, Mrs. Liberty, a 26- year member of the renowned sorority, will lead the organization as it celebrates its 100th year in 2022. Mr. Sutherland attended every Links National Assembly and Western Area Conference since 1971 as well as many other Area Conferences. She began her career as a music teacher and vocal music educator in Pensacola, at Washington High, where she was Teacher of the Year she wrote the school song and the pep song. Virginia W. Harris was re-elected President of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc. for a second term at the 19th Biennial Conference, October 12, 2019 in Atlanta, GA. Having served as a member of the Metropolitan Atlanta Chapter for 29 years, President Harris has consistently demonstrated her leadership abilities through successfully serving at both the national and local chapter levels. Throughout her administration, Ellison emphasized the importance of the strength of the family unit. As the daughter of a civil rights activist and from a family immersed in the Movement, she determined early that education and equal justice were important for all people of color. As a foremost thought leader and policy architect, she has spearheaded legislative victories to legally establish the nations first Office on African American Affairs, and to introduce and pass the historic anti-hair discrimination CROWN Act. In the early days of the organization, she worked very hard with the Vigilance Committee. Congresswoman Beatty is a committed and vocal supporter of the Congressional Black Caucus, concussion awareness and education legislation, and the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI), which seeks to increase the participation of women and minorities in all facets of the financial marketplace. Vice President Harris and her sister, Maya Harris, were primarily raised and inspired by their mother, Shyamala Gopalan. On the Council, Congresswoman Pressley worked in partnership with residents, advocates, and other elected officials to combat the inequities and disparities facing the community. Educationally, President Harris holds a Masters of Public Administration degree, Bachelor of Business Administration degree, a Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Government Financial Manager. Open on Saturdays, the Center serves hot meals, has a food pantry, a clothing center and offers counseling services for people of all ages. Following her distinguished career with USSS, Campbell was recruited to be the Assistant Sergeant at Arms for the Office of the Sergeant at Arms where she provided assistance, guidance, and recommendations on sensitive and/or confidential issues relating to the Sergeant at Arms. Adams holds the Bachelor of Arts degree, Magna Cum Laude from Southern University in Baton Rouge and the Masters of Arts degree from the University of Michigan. Executive Vice President KeyCorp Member and Executive Council KeyCorp. Virginia enjoys traveling, reading, tennis and is learning to play golf. President Frazier has received many honors recognizing her civic and community services in varied ways. She received her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati of School of Medicine and her bachelor of science in biology from Tufts University. Chair and President, National Council of Negro Women. Singular Sensation Award, Ohio Cancer Research Associates She was elected Vice President after a lifetime of public service, having been elected District Attorney of San Francisco, California Attorney General, and United States Senator. She is a communicant of St. Augustine P.E. Scholarship is a principle that Valerie holds in high regard having graduated from York Institute as the class valedictorian at the age of fourteen, and being accepted into ten of the nations top universities. When she moved to Waco, Texas where there was no chapter, she helped establish the Waco (TX) Chapter. During that time, she also served as a member of the 1994 AT&T Malcolm Baldrige Award winning team in the area of human resources. Incorporated. Her consuming avocation was friendship especially friendship with young people, and with members of The Links. She retired in December 2007 from Thornton Township High School, District 205, where she served as the Associate Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction and Professional Development and as the director for Special Education and the District Coordinator for Small Learning Communities. Six years after her induction she was elected to the Executive Council as Member-at-Large. Over the course of her career, she has held teaching and administrative positions in anthropology, womens studies, and African American studies at several major universities. -General Organizer that went port to port in 1950's to defeat International Brotherhood of Longshoreman (IBL) -Elected President at ILA International Convention in 1963. After short periods of teaching at Virginia Theological Seminary and College, and at Saint Pauls College in Lawrenceville, she joined the faculty of North Carolina Central University. She is a member of the Advisory Boards of WHMM-TV in Washington, D.C. and the African-American Institute in New York City. Rather than yield to the pressure for an integrated prom, school officers canceled the affair. While in Liberia, she lectured at the Universities of Monrovia and Liberia, and five other educational and/or community groups. The present status of life in our inner cities, with its high unemployment and less than ideal opportunities, demands that we bring together our best minds and talents to resolve these problems with new strategies and tactics. 1st National President and Co-Founder Philadelphia (PA) Chapter 1949-1953. combination in the United States. Kornisha McGill Brown is a native of Thomaston, GA and currently resides with her family in Columbus, GA. She is a graduate of Spelman College where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. As a young girl, she accompanied her mother, who was pursuing a masters degree at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and attended the Cascadilla College Preparatory School at Cornell. Leonard was tabbed for the post at the organizations 41st National Assembly in Indianapolis, Indiana. Georgia, convened (by Past National President Dolly Adams) to develop strategies to support the 1990 Civil Rights Restoration legislation. Here, for more than 30years, until her retirement in 1977, she served successively as professor of history; chairman of the history department, dean of the Graduate School and University Distinguished Professor. Stratton has one daughter, Meryle Anne (Billie) Manigault, M.D., who practices in Germany. degree with a major in history from Morgan State College in Baltimore, and M.A. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley is an advocate, a policy-maker, an activist, and a survivor. While at HUD, Ellison pursued her ongoing interest in the academic development of young people. Biennially, The Links, Incorporated gives an award for outstanding international volunteerism. Her community volunteer services seem rooted in her concerns for children and young peopleservice as a member of the board of Childrens Protective Services, and the Family Counseling and Childrens Services of McLennan County, Texas; Waco (Texas) Neighborhood Youth Center; Secretary of the National Sickle Cell Disease Research Foundation of Los Angeles; Seattle Planned Parenthood and Friends of the Childrens Defense Fund Committee are some of her affiliations. She has two children Jason Lee a graduate of Harvard University and Erica Lee a graduate of Duke University who is also a Member of the Harris County School Board in Houston, Texas. Dr. Edmonds was the first Black woman to become Dean of a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in the United States. Pauline Ellison 7. As a member of Vice President Hubert Humphreys Committee on the Back-To-School Program, and her official training and supervisory efforts with President Johnsons Youth Programs, thousands of young people were trained, employed, and brought back into the educational and economic mainstream. Married to Dr. Nolan N. Atkinson, staff associate at Bryn Mawr Hospital and NAACP leader, she listed her hobby or interest as my family and my home. Atkinson is the mother of two children, Carolyn A. Thomas, vice president of a consulting firm, and Nolan, Jr., an attorney. Vivian Beamom 5. In 1986, Edmonds was named a Distinguished Woman of North Carolina. As an indication of The Links continuing support of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), President Frazier served on the UNCF board of directors throughout her term. Link Scott did graduate study in the field of guidance and received her masters degree from Columbia University. Further, she has secured more than $10 million in grants for visionary programs involving the professional community in cutting-edge issues such as adolescent pregnancy prevention, family planning, promotion of physical activity among African American youth, school-age child care, and recruitment and retention of minority youth in undergraduate and graduate programs. Lets pay it forward my Sisters! She believes that the people closest to the pain should be closest to the power and that a diversity of voices in the political process is essential to making policies that benefit more Americans. On Monday, July 4, 1988, a few days after the close of the 26th National Assembly, co-founder Scott died at age 87. 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