Hawk-Houston Youth Enrichment Center recently celebrated Alveta Houston Hawk's legacy in its 2024 Annual Meeting and Recognition Banquet, which also served as a launch for the non-profits Diamond Anniversary fundraising
Bill Perkins Something about the neighborhood was troubling Alveta Hawk. She and her husband, Marion, were hard-working entrepreneurs, and their efforts in the Jim Crow South nurtured a thriving community of Black-owned businesses in the area known as Baptist Bottom near downtown Dothan.
The organization recently celebrated that legacy in its 2024 Annual Meeting and Recognition Banquet, which also served as a launch for the non-profits Diamond Anniversary fundraising campaign. The event also served as the launch of a reprint of a biography of the extraordinary life of service of founder Alveta Houston Hawk.
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