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The Links (Denver Chapter) Collection

Blair-Caldwell
African American Research Library
Denver Public Library
2004

Provenance:	The collection was donated to the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library in 2003.
Ownership:	Literary and copyrights have been assigned to the Denver Public Library.
Call Number:	MS-ARL66
Size:	1 box (0.25 linear feet), 2 oversize photographs additional donation expected
Processed By:	Brent Wagner
Date:	March 2004

Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Container Listing

Organizational Note

Founded: 1946

Members: 10,000

Staff: 8

Budget: $550,000

Regional Groups: 4. State Groups: 42. Local Groups: 274

Description: Organization of women committed to the community through educational, cultural, and civic activities. Provides enrichment experiences for those who are educationally disadvantaged and culturally deprived, and support for talented individuals. Sponsors charitable activities and a National Grant-In-Aid program. The Links members are role models, mentors, activist and volunteers who work toward the realization of making the name "Links" not only a chain of friendship, but also a chain of purposeful service.

-extracted from www.linksinc.org and Associations Unlimited

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Scope and Content

The Links Collection at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library is not national in scope; it focuses only on the Denver Chapter. Box 1 contains programs from Links meetings held in the Denver and correspondence related to those conferences. An undated photograph of Fairfax B. Holmes also appears. Holmes was a co-founder of the Denver Chapter of The Links, Incorporated.

Additional material is expected.

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Container Listing

Box 1

Box 1	Miscellany	1995-2002, n.d.
Oversize	Photograph – founding members	1952
	Photograph – Fairfax B. Holmes	n.d.

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