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• The Links, Incorporated. Eastern Area Conference, April 11-12, 1969. Theme: The Beauty of Blackness-- Channeling Black Hope.
  The Links, Incorporated is a national volunteer service organization of professional Black women founded by two Black Philadelphians, Sarah S. Scott and Margaret R. Hawkins in 1946. The Central New Jersey Chapter of The Links, Inc. was chartered on May 28, 1949 in Princeton, NJ. By 1969, The Links had become a prominent and prestigious African American women’s organizations in the United States, known for combining community service, cultural programming, and social networking among accomplished Black women leaders.
• Letter from Anita Cornwell to Audre Lorde
  Audre Lorde (1934 - 1992) was an American poet, novelist, memoirist, essayist. She received a master’s degree in Library Science and worked as a young adult librarian and school librarian in the 1960’s. Lorde also published poetry influenced by her reactions to racism, sexism, and homophobia. She married and had two children. Her first major book of poetry, Coal, was published in 1976. Lorde continued to publish until her death from liver cancer in 1992. (Poetry Foundation, “Audra Lorde, 1934-1992.”)
• Chronicles I, Prose Poems by Anita Cornwell
  Anita Cornwell (1923 - 2023). The document opens with a dedication to Cornwell’s mother and a short biography highlighting her career as a writer and playwright, followed by the table of contents that lists five poems. They are: 1. First Love and Other Traumas 2. Second Coming 3. Sordid Mansions 4. In Praise of the Foremothers 5. Remembrance of Sister-Love
• The Griot Press, premiere issue (May 1992)
  The Griot Press was a minority owned and published lesbian and gay magazine.
• Song Lyrics, Handwritten
  Song lyrics noted by Jean Smith, a member of Earl's All-Girl Chorus, a Pennington singing group directed by William Earl Hubbard. The lyrics show the repertoire for the chorus and include both religious and gospel songs. 94 sheets of loose paper with handwritten song lyrics, mid-20th century.
• Group of 1930's - 1940's Church Hats
  Church hats that would have been worn by the ladies of Mt. Zion AME Church in the late 20th century.
• The Philadelphia High School for Girls commencement announcement
  The 157th Graduating Class: June 16, 1939. The Girls Normal School, aka, Philadelphia High School for Girls was established in 1848 as the first publicly supported high school for girls in Pennsylvania (The Alumnae Association of the Philadelphia High School for Girls, 2025).