The Girl Scouts of the USA, which had racially segregated troops in its early years, has appointed its first Black CEO after more than a century.
Former ExxonMobil lawyer Judith Batty now serves as interim CEO of the youth leadership organization. She follows Sylvia Acevedo, who served as CEO of GSUSA since 2016 before stepping down in August. Batty, a former Girl Scout, started off in the organization as a Brownie with her local Nassau County Council in New York. She continued scouting over the years, before later going on to serve two terms on the National Board.
Nonetheless, the first African-American girl members were a part of the third US troop formed in 1913 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, predating the first officially recognized all-African-American Girl Scout troop in 1917, according to the GSUSA official blog. Although the third US troop in 1913 included African-American girls, troops remained largely segregated by race in the South for decades.
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