Ruby Wilkins Wilkins, Ruby New Town Florist Club (Gainesville, Ga.) Desota Park (Gainesville, Ga.) Butler Recreation Center (Gainesville, Ga.) African American women--Societies and clubs--Georgia--Gainesville Women civic leaders--Georgia--Gainesville Ruby Wilkins, pioneer of progressive changes. Photograph of Mrs. Ruby Wilkins, a tireless pioneer of progressive changes in the New Town section of Gainesville on the South Side. She saw to it that things got done so that other people didn't need to worry. Much of Wilkins' work came through the New Town Florist Club, which she helped found. Desota Park, located on the street where Wilkins lived, was funded primariy through the New Town Florist Club under Wilkins' leadership. Wilkins also played a key role in the development of the Butler Recreation Center. Caption: "Hall County Black History Society (0045) Gainesville, Georgia." Digitized by: Digital Techniques, Inc. Electronic version made available through a federal Library Services and Technology Act Grant and Georgia Public Library Services. Courtesy of The Times. [Gainesville, Ga. : Hall County Library System/Hall County Black History Society] Hall County Black History Society (Ga.) Hall County Library System (Ga.) 2003 Black-and-white photographs http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/hall/bhsp/do:hbh0045 image/jpeg 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm. Forms part of: Black History Society photograph collection. Hall County (Ga.) Gainesville (Ga.) Cite as: [Name of photograph], Black County History Society Photograph Collection, Hall County, Georgia Black History Society and the Hall County Library System.