New Research Indicates Racial Bias Denied Social Reformer Ada S. McKinley Her Rightful Place in History: Ada S. McKinley Community Services launches initiative to reverse history's omissions and educate public about Chicago humanitarian and "remarkable" racial justice advocate.

CHICAGO, Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Newly released scholarly research about Chicago social reformer Ada S. McKinley indicates her contributions to Chicago and to the field of human services have been ignored and marginalized due to her race. The report has spurred the 102-year old nonprofit she founded, Ada S. McKinley Community Services, to call for the rewriting of history books to inform the public of one of the nation's most profoundly successful, yet unheralded human services pioneers.

As we celebrate Black History Month, Ada S. McKinley Community Services CEO Jamal Malone says now is the time for historians, government leaders and the public to help correct what the researchers describe as "white privileged history," and tell the story of the heroine of Chicago's South Side.

In 1919, McKinley founded the South Side Settlement House, which served the largest area in Chicago and was the only settlement house fully staffed by African Americans. In their research, which was recently honored by the Academy of Leisure Sciences, Assistant professor KangJae Lee of North Carolina State University and Professor Rodney B. Dieser of University of Northern Iowa called it "troubling" how historians have...