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Books for Africa Partnership Books for Africa provides free resources to schools and social agencies in Africa. Links members and debutantes packed books together for the organization. The books serve an important role in the rebuilding of school libraries in countries ravaged by war and internal strife. Debutantes pack…

National Trends and Services Voter registration: Links members Dr. Delores Henderson, Links member Marcia Murray, Gloria Anderson, Links member Shawn Renee Kennon, J.D., Marvin Anderson, Links members Diane Jones Smith, Mercedes Henderson Clark, Natalie Dixon, and Heir Link, Alicia Smith, 2020. Get Out The Vote The Minneapolis/St. Paul (MN)…

Throughout the nation today, The Links, Incorporated chapters partner with museums, symphonies, arts councils, educational institutions, and corporations to advocate for art programs, especially where there is a focus on artists of color. Links members champion opportunities for educating minority youth in the arts. They present and support performances by…

Children’s Books This national Links, Incorporated program established reading rooms in inner-city libraries across the country. Locally, the Minneapolis/St. Paul (MN) Chapter donated culturally-relevant books to Rondo Library (St. Paul) and Sumner Library (Minneapolis), and established reading rooms at local elementry schools and the Minneapolis site of the…

50 Years of the Minneapolis/St. Paul (MN) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated 1972-2022 Linked In Friendship, Connected in Service Racial discrimination in Philadelphia was pervasive in both employment and housing and World War II brought new urgency to the struggle for civil rights. In 1945, the Philadelphia NAACP (National Association…

Woman’s March 2017 Memories of the 2017 Women’s March RCHS member Judy Kishel participated in the Women’s March on Washington in 2017. Hundreds of thousands of women all over the country marched for equal rights, and thousands more traveled to Washington D. C. to participate in the march on the…