NIR Ms. Akiba Davis- Everett

Community Leader/Activist Ms Akiba Davis-Everett was born in Kansas City, MO where she found a passion to give back to the community at an early age.  She joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored (NAACP) while in High School. That youth chapter was responsible for breaking the color barriers at Woolworth counters; picketing theaters that did not admit Black people; opening the town’s only theme park, Fairyland, to admit Black people every day, not just one day a year; which had been their practice to for over 40 years. As a results of her involvement in Civil Rights, the Kansas City Chapter of the NAACP invited her Youth Chapter to attend the 50thAnniversary of that chapter to attend the celebration and receive the Pioneer of the Civil Rights Awards for the outstanding work done in the sixties in the Civil Rights movement in Kansas City, MO. Ms. Davis moved to the California in 1970 continued to work in the community by joining the Board of Girls Incorporate, Inc., and became President of the Board.  During her leadership, Girls Incorporate raised funds, which provided enrollment fees for girls who could not afford them. She also brought donors to Girls Incorporate who rebuilt the agency and donated funds to pay off the mortgage; which allowed remaining funds run the agency programs.