The Links, Incorporated is an international, not-for-profit corporation, established in 1946 by founders Margaret Roselle Hawkins and Sarah Strickland Scott.  The membership consists of more than 17,000 professional women of color in 299 chapters located in 41 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, and the United Kingdom. It is one of the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations of extraordinary women who are committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry.

 

On May 5, 1973, organized by Annette Williams, The San Fernando Valley (CA) Chapter of the Links, Incorporated was chartered by Western Area Director, the late Julia Smith.