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Community
Activist
Gail
Davenport
Biography Sketch
Gail Davenport is a community leader,
Civil
Rights activist and humanitarian.
She is a graduate of W.A. Fountain High
School, Forest Park, Georgia and
Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia. She is
a
life member of the National Alumnae
Association of Spelman College, recipient
of the Atlanta Chapter’s 2001 Outstanding
Alumnae Award, and the 2002
Spelman
College Board of Trustees
Community Service Award.
In September 1997, she
established the
Henry and Clara Dixon Education Fund in
honor of her maternal
grandparents to help
students purchase books while attending
college. Also,
she founded
COLLEGE BOUND, an initiative to
motivate and encourage high
school students to attend college.
Ms. Davenport was a
delegate to the 1988 Democratic National Convention in
Atlanta, GA pledged to
the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. and a delegate to the
2004 Democratic National
Convention in Boston, MA pledged to Senator John Kerry.
She has served on the
Executive Committee of the Clayton County Democratic Party.
Her other achievements include:
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Founder and President of the Concerned Black Citizens
Coalition of Clayton County which spearheads the county’s annual ecumenical
observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. The organization led the
charge to have the Clayton County School Board name a school in Dr. King’s
honor. |
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Founder of the Clayton County Black History Center, Metro
South Youth Association and the Clayton County Sojourner Truth Verse
Speaking Choir. |
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Received the 1997 Outstanding Community Leader of the Year
by the National Council of Negro Women, Clayton County Section. |
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Received the Community Leader of the Century Award by the
Women in the NAACP, September 1999. |
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Received the 1989 and 1996 NAACP, Clayton County Branch
Image Award for Distinguished Service |
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Past President of the American Business Women’s
Association, Greenbriar Chapter, 1992 Woman of the Year, Member Choice
Award, Hall of Fame Award and Inner Circle Member. |
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2003 Pinnacle Leadership Award Recipient from the Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority, East Point/College Park Chapter. |
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Chairperson of the United Negro College Fund for the past
twenty years. She has received the UNCF Distinguished Leadership Award,
Star Volunteer Award and the 2000 Mayor’s Masked Award,
Atlanta, GA. |
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A 1989 Graduate of Leadership Clayton. |
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Recruited approximately 100 youth for the Hook-A-Kid on Golf
Tee Level Clinics at River’s Edge Golf Club in Fayetteville and Browns Mill
Golf Club in Atlanta. |
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Hosted the Gail P. Davenport Golf Classic to raise funds for
local charities for the past ten years. |
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President of the RainbowPUSH Coalition,
Clayton-Henry-Fayette-Spalding Chapter |
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She is a member of the following organizations:
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The Atlanta Business League
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The Atlanta Board of Realtors
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The Georgia Association of Realtors
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The National Association of Realtors
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The NAACP
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The RainbowPUSH Coalition
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Life Member – National Council of Negro Women
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Life Member –National Alumnae Association of Spelman College
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The American Business Women’s Association
Presently Ms. Davenport serves as the Business Development Director for RAINBOW
PUSH Peachtree Street Project, an
initiative of the Citizenship Education Fund, a multi-issue international organization uniting people of
diverse ethnic, religious, economic and political backgrounds to continue the
struggle for social, racial and economic justice founded by Rev. Jesse L.
Jackson, Sr. She is also a real estate professional with Coldwell Banker
Success 2000 Realty having worked in the real estate industry for the
past twenty (20) years. She has conducted workshops on home ownership for she
believes in “democracy in housing” and that every citizen deserves to experience
the American dream of home ownership.
Ms.
Davenport constantly participates in Career Days at local schools.
She is a
member of Andrews Chapel United Methodist Church, Jonesboro, Georgia, where she
serves as a communion stewardess, member of the United Methodist Women, Building
Committee and the Nominating Committee - Griffin District.
She is the daughter of Mrs. Helen Dixon Davenport and the late Nathaniel
Davenport and the sister of Carolyn Davenport. |
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