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North Atlanta Chapter, Top Ladies and Top
Teens partners with the NAACP recognizing Black His-
tory month by attending The Legacy Museum and The Area V

National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgom- Cincinnati Chapter, named its 2019 Five-Star
ery, Alabama.

Community Sweethearts at their 18th Annual Gala.
The day consisted of Legacy Museum encounters of Since 2000, the chapter has recognized Cincinnatians in

imprisoned slave replicas where one could see, hear and each of the five thrust or program areas. Honorees for
get close to what it was like to be imprisoned awaiting 2019 included: Status of Women - Dr. Anthereca Lane

sale. Slave narratives of the sights and sounds of the whose medical practice for women provides education,
Domestic Slave Trade. Included were research and vid- and compassionate and collaborative care; Community

eography which helped to understand racial terrorism Beautification - Mrs. Velma L. Rodgers, a self-taught
and the humiliation of the Jim Crow South. Data rich horticulturist and landscape gardener who has designed

exhibits assisting with understanding racial injustice. Al- and nurtured gardens throughout the city; Service to
so depicted was the current jail system and the many Youth - Mrs. Belinda Tubbs-Wallace, the “game chang-

wrongly imprisoned. Followed by the visit to the Lega- ing” principal at Rockdale Academy who has raised the
cy museum was a visit to The National Memorial. The school’s academic rating, empowered its community,

memorial uses sculpture, art, literature and design to and garnered over 40 partners whose support provides
contextualize racial terror and oppression. Identified on tangible needs and experiences to students; Service to

this site is more than 4,000 African American men, Seniors - Mrs. Dwana Lockett, an advocate for the el-
women and children who were lynched between 1877 derly and people with disabilities; and Community

and 1950. There are more than 800 steel monuments, Partnerships - Mrs. Anzora Adkins, president of the
one for each county in the United States where racial Evanston Community Council that has led the collabo-

terror lynching's took place, each engraved with the ration with the City of Cincinnati to revitalize the neigh-
names of the victims. borhood to reduce crime and blight.

The Top Teens and Top Ladies discussed the demoral- The Cincinnati Chapter was chartered in 1967 and was

izing acts and injustices our people suffered during this the first chapter in Area V. Proceeds from the gala fund
visit. Our awareness was heightened, “True Peace is scholarships that are awarded annually. Chapter officers

not merely the absence of tension. It is the pres- include: Lady Doris M. Stokes – President; Lady Janel
ence of justice” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Chriss – First Vice President; Lady Fran Jackson – Sec-

ond Vice President and National NAACP Chair; Lady
Angelita Moreno – Recording Secretary; Lady Gwendo-

lyn I. Robinson – Corresponding Secretary and Past
National Area V Director; Lady Victoria Crook – Treas-

urer; Lady Sandra Wiggins – Financial Secretary; Lady
Doris Frye – Top Teens Advisor; and, Lady Rochelle

Johnson – Assistant Top Teens Advisor.