Seventy-Two years ago, on November 9, 1946, Margaret Roselle Hawkins and Sarah Strickland Scott, two young Philadelphia visionaries, invited seven of their friends to join them in organizing a new type of inter-city club. The two women envisioned an organization that would respond to the needs and aspirations of Black women in ways that existing clubs did not. It was their intent the club would have a threefold aim–civic, educational, and cultural. Based on these aims, the club would implement programs, which its founders hoped would foster cultural appreciation through the arts; develop richer inter-group relations; and help women who participated to understand and accept their social and civic responsibilities. The Links, Incorporated was shortly thereafter established. The cornerstone of our great organization is friendship and service.
As part of our Founders’ Day Celebration, New Orleans Chapter members, on November 9th, distributed books, blankets and bags to children undergoing cancer treatment at Tulane-Lakeside Hospital.
We are – Linked in Friendship and Connected in Service.
