Pictured is Ada S. McKinley (center) during a ceremony where she laid the cornerstone at the organization's first headquarters on 34th Street in Bronzeville in August of 1952. She died just hours later on August 25th. The site is now headquarters for Ada S. McKinley Community Services’ education programming that has placed more than 70,000 youth at over 400 colleges and universities throughout the country, many of whom have become first-generation college graduates.

Pictured is Ada S. McKinley (center) during a ceremony
where she laid the cornerstone at the organization’s first
headquarters on 34th Street in Bronzeville in August of
1952. She died just hours later on August 25th. The site
is now headquarters for Ada S. McKinley Community
Services’ education programming that has placed more
than 70,000 youth at over 400 colleges and universities
throughout the country, many of whom have become
first-generation college graduates.