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United Negro College Fund elects its first Black board chair
Peachtree Providence Partners founding member Milton H. Jones Jr. has been elected to chair the support organization s board of directors.
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The United Negro College Fund, which has long been one of the premier organizations aimed at providing financial support for Black students attending Black colleges, has announced that it has elected its first-ever Black board chairman.
Peachtree Providence Partners founding member Milton H. Jones Jr. has been elected the first Black chair of the United Negro College Fund’s board of directors. (UNCF)
Milton Jones of Peachtree Providence Partners Named Chair of UNCF Board
Atlanta business executive to focus on growing UNCF endowment, benefitting HBCUs and their students
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ATLANTA, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Atlanta business and civic leader Milton H. Jones, Jr. has been elected Chair of the UNCF (United Negro College Fund) Board of Directors, becoming the first African American to hold that position.
Jones succeeds William F. Stasior, Sr., retired Chairman and CEO of Booz Allen Hamilton, who served as UNCF s Chair for 11 years. Former Chairs of the UNCF board include: John D. Rockefeller, III; former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo s International Food and Beverage Division Michael H. Jordan and former Revlon President and CEO Jack Stahl.
It was a different world. An ice cream parlor, schools, restaurants, a park, all were full of family and friends and people that looked like her. African Americans on the Westside had their own swimming pool, their own playground, and, when the Ashby was built in 1934, their own movie theater.
You could, if you wanted, travel to the Fox, on Peachtree Street, and walk up a few hundred steps on the fire escape outside the building, and sit in the “Buzzard’s Roost,” which was reserved for “colored” patrons.
“But that was not my cup of tea,” said Stemley, now 79 and a retired high school counselor.
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