McMillan, Enolia Pettigen

▪ 2007

      American civil rights leader (b. Oct. 20, 1904, Willow Grove, Pa.—d. Oct. 24, 2006, Stevenson, Md.), served (1984–89) as the first woman president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. During her more than 50 years as a pillar of the civil rights movement, McMillan agitated for equal pay for black teachers and for improved schools for black students. She helped reactivate the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP and was instrumental in moving the organization's headquarters from New York City to Baltimore, raising $150,000 with the peach pies and pins (“I Gave” and “NAACP”) she sold to facilitate the 1986 move.

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