The Links Incorporated - Founding Members On the evening of November 9, 1946, Margaret Hawkins and Sarah Scott, two young Philadelphia matrons, invited seven of their friends to join them in organizing a new type of inner-city club. Her educational development began as a student at Tennessee State University where she earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics with honors. In 1983, in her home church, she exchanged wedding vows with Rev. Among her many civic activities, Purnell is a life member of the National Council of Negro Women and the NAACP. She was also a member of the Baton Rouge YWCA, Women in Politics, the League of Women Voters, and the Blundon Home for Orphans, the local Girl Scouts Executive Board, and the Steering Committee on the Status of Women in Louisiana. Frazier is national parliamentarian for the Association of Black Hospital Pharmacists. Jenkins also holds an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from both Spring Hill College and Washington College., Founder and CEO, National CARES Mentoring Movement. a widening gap over time between the Democrats who were supportive of government interaction with the American polity and Republicans who opposed much of it. She has held faculty positions at eight different colleges and universities including the Neuro-Psychiatric Institute of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio; Albany Georgia State College; Paul Quinn College Waco, Texas; Howard University School of Law; Washington, D.C.; and the Interdenominational Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia. She was named by Congressional Quarterly as one of the 50 most effective Members of Congress and the U.S. The professional organizations to which she belongs include the International Reading Association, the American Association of University Professors, the National Association of College Women, the National Reading Association, and the Louisiana Reading Association. Campbell was appointed as Deputy Sergeant at Arms in July 2021 and has supported high security events such as the State of the Union Address, where she escorted the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Valerie is an active member of Delta Mu Zeta chapter in Harlem, and resides in Brooklyn with her soul mate and best friend Douglas Baker. To assist the national president, the Executive Council, and the National Assembly, she also organized the National Advisory Council, composed of all past officers and the organizing members of the Philadelphia (PA) Chapter who cared to participate. Ultimately, Adjoa is the go-to change agent to mobilize leaders and communities for thoughtful, collective social and political action. Purnell has also studied at Louisiana State University, Syracuse University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana. More than any other person, it was Edmonds who established the organizations program and structure to make the dedication to human service the identifying characteristic of The Links. A native Virginian, she resides in Cleveland, Ohio and is the mother of three adult children, Reverend Kimberley S. Copeland, Dr. Garrison E. Copeland and Michael Patterson Taylor Copeland. During the first year of the Philadelphia chapters existence, Scott served as vice president and continued to hold this office through 1949 when the nationalization meeting was held. She died in 1975 and is buried in Cincinnati. In addition to her volunteer services, Ellison was the first Black woman to become a member of the Board of Directors of Central Fidelity Banks, Inc. Central Fidelity is ranked by U.S. Banker as seventh among the nations largest banking companies on overall performance. Prior to joining Unilever, Esi spent more than 15 years as a leader in the dynamic global cosmetics industry. In addition, Beatty authored theJumpstart Housing Opportunities Utilizing Small Enterprises (HOUSE) Act, orJumpstart HOUSE Act, which would reauthorize the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) for eight years and require state business development agencies to set aside the lesser of $2.5 million or 10 percent of unobligated SSBCI funds for small businesses to purchase, rehabilitate, or operate affordable housing units. The Stanfords were members of the A.U. Congresswoman Johnson had the honor to serve as Chair of theCongressional Black Caucusduring the 107th Congress. Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Cuyahoga Community College In addition, she has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Ohio Dominican University and Central State University. Dr. Cole rose to national prominence as the first African American woman President of Spelman College and, later, as President of Bennett College, making her the only person to serve as president of both historically Black colleges for women in the United States. At this meeting, she was elected the first national president and continued in that office until 1953. Much of her life and activities center around her church. On August 23, 2020, Kornisha McGill Brown was elected as the 27th National President of Jack and Jill of America, Incorporated at the 44th National Convention. In the early days of the organization, she worked very hard with the Vigilance Committee. She has brought fresh thinking to these businesses and championed high impact purpose driven efforts like Doves founding of the CROWN (Creating and Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) Coalition to help foster beauty inclusivity and to eradicate hair discrimination through support of the CROWN Act legislation. Georgia, convened (by Past National President Dolly Adams) to develop strategies to support the 1990 Civil Rights Restoration legislation. A member of the Lynchburg (VA) Chapter from its beginnings, she worked untiringly with the chapter in its outstandingly creative and effective programsparticularly the programs for young people. She died on June 22,1987 and was funeralized in Lynchburg, Virginia, her Links home since 1950. The following year she was appointed by the U.S. Department of State as Leader-Specialist in the International Education Exchange to Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden and France. When the family returned to Seattle after a short period in Pullman, Washington where her husband earned a degree in Architecture, Sutherland organized a youth choir around her own children, Chrystal and Clyde. President Frazier served as an honorary chair of the 1989 LDEF Equal Justice Dinner in New York City. After the untimely death of Gilchrist in 1990, the Center was renamed The Scott-Gilchrist Quality of Life Center and Purnell became the Director. Stylish, scintillating, and hardworking, Katie Greene was awarded a gold bracelet at the 1969 Assembly for her unmatched record of attendance at every assembly for twenty years. Their client list includes Dove, WW (formerly Weight Watchers), Tory Burch, Unilever, AARP, Coca Cola, Williams-Sonoma, among others. Campbell was appointed Special Agent in Charge of the Liaison Division within the Office of Government and Public Affairs in 2014 where she secured all diplomatic and official passports. As Chairwoman, Congresswoman Jackson Lee supported enhanced technology, better intelligence, increased airplane cargo inspections, increased security for railroads, and implementation of the 9/11 Commission report. Congresswoman Johnson began her career as the first female African-American Chief Psychiatric Nurse at the V.A. It also highlighted the lawmakers ability to successfully work across party lines. A longtime advocate and champion to end human trafficking, during the 114th Congress, Congresswoman Beattys bipartisan legislation to combat child sex trafficking unanimously passed the House of Representatives in 2015 and was signed into law as part of a larger measure, theJustice for Victims of Trafficking Act, by President Obama. Community Service Award, SCLC The Financial Services Committee oversees the entire financial services industry, including the nations banking, securities, insurance, and housing industries, as well as the work of the Federal Reserve, the United States Department of the Treasury and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Kamala D. Harris is the Vice President of the United States of America. Dr. Lee currently serves as a Leadership Coach for New Leaders for New Schools. 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. Dr. Helen Grey Edmonds died in Durham, North Carolina on May 9, 1995. Rep. Demings is a lifelong public servant who broke numerous glass ceilings in her rise through the Orlando Police Department and her election to Congress. 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. She was subsequently designated as chair of the Civil Service Commission. 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America,Savoy Magazine She received the Dare to Be Great Award in 2006 from the Illinois Women Administrators Organization. National, each Area and every Chapter is expected to utilize the services of an appointed Protocol Chair to ensure Adjoa was an international student at the University of Ghana and is an alumna of the Womens Campaign School at Yale University. Pauline Ellison 7. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and Phi Delta Kappa and Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Societies. She was appointed national vice president in 1995. She is a Life Member of YWCA of Greater Miami and Dade County, Inc. and a member of the Board of Directors. She holds membership in four other pharmacy-related groups American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, National Pharmaceutical Association, the Pharmacy Advisory Committee, Shared Purchasing Programthe Hospital Consortium, Inc., and the Florida Pharmaceutical Association. 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. She became journalist of her chapter the same year and was elected chapter secretary in 1974. For a short time, she taught kindergarten in Washington. -Gleason family of Manhattan's Lower West Side had been on waterfront since 1888. After retiring from academia, Dr. Cole served as the Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art for eight years. With five other organizations, The Links worked with the juvenile justice project of the National Board of the YWCA. She was the youngest of two daughters of David and Anna Rosell. In addition, Abina has executive produced with Viacom Networks the critically acclaimed documentarySheroes of Selmain which she shared the stories of her life growing up with women such as Amelia Boynton Robinson, Diane Nash, Jean Jackson, Annie Cooper, Annie Pearl Avery, Marie Foster, and many other unsung sheroes; additionally she executive producedWe RememberandLong Ride to Selma, which are docu-concerts that featured President Barack Obama, Congressman John Lewis, and other grassroots foot soldiers along with Grammy Award-winning artists Kirk Franklin, Ledisi, Bill Withers, Estelle, Bebe Winans, Dougie Fresh, and DJ D-Nice. In 1972, she became the first nurse ever elected to the Texas State House and achieved that that same distinction upon her election to the Texas Senate in 1986. Sarah Strickland Scott, co-founder and first national president of The Links, Incorporated, was born in Philadelphia. Recognizing that business and community prosperity go hand in hand, Copeland leads Keys commitment to transforming and sustaining communities. Church in Camden. Mrs. Liberty will provide leadership to over 100,000 sorority members and serve as chairman of the board of directors, composed of 38 national and regional officers who manage the sororitys 500 chapters in the United States and in several countries. OUR LEGACY Northern Indiana (IN) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated Our Legacy On November 9, 1946, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, two friends invited seven of their other friends to discuss forming a new type of club to respond to the needs of African Americans in the aftermath of World War II. Dr. Glover also served as Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Jackson (Mississippi) Airport Authority. 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