| On May 26, 1919, Ada Sophia Dennison McKinley, an African-American school teacher, who migrated from the state of Texas during World War I, recognized the tremendous social needs of soldiers returning home from the War and pioneered the beginning of one of Chicago's oldest and largest social service agencies. In recognition of her founding spirit and her many years of leadership and service, the Agency was officially given her name, Ada S. McKinley Community Services, Inc., in 1949.
Since its founding, Ada S. McKinley has been a non-discriminatory, non-sectarian and non-political organization with a mission of promoting individual and family welfare, preserving and encouraging human potential, dignity, and self-development and aggressively serving the community.
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