The Dr. Arenia Conelia Mallory Foundation is a private foundation, and a non-governmental entity that is established as a nonprofit corporation, with the principal purpose of giving grants to non-profit organizations and institutions, or individuals for basic needs, educational, employment, and medical assistance to uplift impoverished individuals and /or families out of poverty, and to help them to become self-sufficient, and productive citizens. It derives its money from donations from individuals, organizations, corporations and possible future government grants. The purpose of this foundation is to carry on the plans, hopes, dreams and vision of Dr. Arenia Conelia Mallory that stopped on the day of her demise on May 8, 1977.

 

    “Dr. Mallory was the first African-American woman to head a major institution in the deep South; to be elected to the Holmes County Board of Education; to receive the Governor’s outstanding Mississippi award; to have a day proclaimed in the entire state of Mississippi in her honor; to have the board of supervisors of Holmes County name a road in her honor; and to have many more honors that are reflected in Chapter 12.”

 

(Exerpt from book;)

 

“Down Under The Sun”:

The Story of Arenia Conelia Mallory”

 

 

Dr. Arenia Conelia Mallory's

“Honors and Accomplishments”

 

1940: -Twice selected by the National Council of Negro Women as one of the Outstanding Women of America.

 

1948: -Selected by the National Council of Negro Women as one of the 12 most outstanding women in America.

 

1956: -Citing her contribution as an education and leader of women, the Utility Club of New York designated her as Woman of the Year, sharing honors with Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the Utility Club’s Man of the year. She received this award in the presence of 1,500 guests assembled atceremonies in New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

 

     In the 50s: Became Chairperson of National Education Association of MississippiTeacher’s Human Relations Council and held that position until 1972.

 

1960: -One of the first Americans to visit Ghana after it attained Commonwealth status.

 

1961: -Invited to return to Ghana to attend the Conference for African women and women of African Descent.

 

1963: -Received the Sojourner Truth 1963 Award for Meritorious Service in the Development and Advancement of the Status of women from the Nation Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs.

 

1965: -Received National Council of Negro Women’s 1965 Tribute Award and the Scroll of Honor for being a symbol of the accomplishment of Negro women in advancing education in the rural areas.

 

1966: -Honored among the top 12 women in Government by the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

 

1967: -In January, her biography appeared in the ROYAL BLUE BOOK, Leaders of the English Speaking World, London, England.

 

1968: -Her biography appeared in "THE PERSONALITIES OF THE SOUTH".

 

-Honored in April by the Chicago Alumni of Saints Junior College at the Dunbar Vocational High School Auditorium.

 

-Cited by the Church Civic League of Cleveland, Ohio, as being among women of achievement at the Manager Hotel.

 

-In November, she was the first person of color and the first woman to be elected to the Holmes County Board of education in Mississippi.

 

1969: -She was cited by the NAACP, and the Church of in Christ International, for outstanding work.

 

1970: -Received the Merit ward from Mississippi Teacher’s Association.

 

1971: -She became a member of the Southern Conference of Human Relations.

 

1972: -Her biography appeared in WHO’S WHO OF AMERICAN WOMEN, published by Marquis Who’s Who, Inc., Chicago, Illinois; THE WORLD WHO’S WHO OF WOMEN, published by Melrose Press Ltd. International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England.

 

1973: -Her biography again appeared in the WORLD WHO’S WHO OF WOMEN, published in Cambridge and London, England.

 

-On September 30, she was award a certificate acknowledging her as the most important and valuable Human Resource of the United States of America living during the closing decade of the first American Bicentennial and, as such, was selected for inclusion in the Library of Human Resources of the American Bicentennial research Institute.

 

- On October 30 she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Humanities by Southwestern University, Greenville, South Carolina.

 

- In November, during their convocation, she received a citation for her outstanding achievements from the Church of God in Christ International.

 

1974: -The Holmes County Board of Supervisors changed the name of Castalian Road in Lexington, Mississippi, to Arenia C. Mallory Road." She was re-elected for a six-year term to Holmes County Board of Education.