Jenkins became involved in the schools when the youngest of her three children was a student at Weldon Elementary. She served as PTA president and founded a fundraising group called the Athletic Booster Club. “We’re a poor town and a lot of parents couldn’t afford to send their kids to camp or to pay for team supplies.”

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Edith Jenkins has three children. She served as PTA president and founded the Athletic Booster Club when her youngest child attended Weldon Elementary.

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First she organized the picket line outside the superintendent’s office — “grown black women voicing their opinion” — and then she ran for the school board. She lost. And ran again. And lost. In 1992, on her third try, she won.

Edith serves as a member of the Weldon City Schools Board of Education. She was first elected to the school board in 1992 after two unsuccessful campaigns.

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As of September 2, 2026, Edith Jenkins did not have a website or any information online.

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L36-L37: Today, sitting at the kitchen table in her comfortable mobile home, Jenkins reflects on her improbable entry into politics. “I’m a survivor,” she says. “You got to fight just to survive around here. That’s how we won the union, that’s how I won my school board seat. I didn’t get in just for the sake of being in politics; Lord knows I’ve got enough to do. I’ve always been concerned that so many parents just don’t take time for their children. They’ve got one strike against them being black and I kept running because I was determined to see they get a good education — at that age they don’t need a second strike.”

Said she ran for the school board to help Black children receive a good education.

- Said she ran for the school board to help Black children receive a good education.

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