Ms. Lydia Oveta V. Glover

The second daughter of six children of the late Rev. Dr. Benjamin J. and Mrs. Lydia W. Glover, born February 6 in Charleston, S.C., and presently resides in Columbia S.C. Ms. Glover is one of the eleven youth to integrate the public schools of Charleston, S.C. in 1963, which was the catalyst for the state of S.C. Her family moved to Columbia, S.C. where she graduated from

C. A. Johnson High School. She continued her education at Wilberforce University, Xenia Ohio and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Early Childhood Education from Benedict College, Columbia, S.C.

Ms. Glover has been honored on several occasions; receiving the Charleston, S.C. “Key to the City” for being one of the eleven first students to integrate the public-school system of Charleston, SC and they are the first in the state of SC. She has received a “Proclamation” from the City of Charleston, S.C. proclaiming Feb. 21st as the “School Access Toward Equity Day”. Ms. Glover also has been recognized and honored as one of the “Midland’s Women on the Move 2015” by BlindSpot Art Foundation the U.S. Congressional “SC Civil Rights Luminaire 2016” ; 2017 Church Women of United Columbia- Human Rights Distinguished Leadership Award, 2018 PALSS Community Partner Award, 2019 she received the “Key to the City” , a “Proclamation”

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from the city of Columbia, S.C. proclaiming February 6 , as “L. Oveta Glover’s Day”. Must

recent 2020 she was awarded the NCNW “Legacy Award”.

Ms. Glover is presently the founder and president of F.U.N.D.S., Inc. (Friends United as a Neighborhood Developmental Society, Inc.) a 501 c (3) non-profit organization that she founded in 1997. The organization is an advocate for the awareness of the devastating deceases Diabetes and Hepatitis C. The organization is the first to implement the Annual Statewide Black History Parade and Festival which is an educational event in its sixteenth year. She is a life member of the National Council of Negro Women, a subscribing life member of the NAACP and the 2019- 2020 NAACP Columbia Branch President, a member of the SC Federation of Colored Woman, and a member of several other organizations and holds a list of volunteerisms.

Previously employed at our state’s HBCUs; Voorhees College, Benedict College and presently employed at Allen University. She has taught in the public-school systems of Columbia and Charleston, S.C. As she resided in Charleston 1982 and began an organization called, “Lady Teens, Inc.”, that encouraged young ladies “to listen, learn, teach and love” giving them hope to learn how they fit into the society around them. After returning to Columbia, S.C., Ms. Glover became an entrepreneur 1982-1986, owning a restaurant and lounge business. She adores entertaining and believes that “a smile will always make another person smile”.

One of Ms. Glover’s mottos: “You listen, You learn, You teach, You love”