Adah Louise Killion Jenkins (April 23, 1901 – May 8, 1973) was a civil rights activist, musician, teacher, and a music critic for the Afro-American newspaper.

[2][3] Her mother's sister, Lillian Handy Trusty,[4] was a longtime teacher in Baltimore, and a member of the NAACP.

[6] Jenkins taught in Baltimore City Public Schools, where she became the first Black supervisor of music, and the Coppin Teacher Training College.

[1][12] The Baltimore CORE participated in a number of protests, but at times its members suffered from lack of focus.

[19] A concert tribute to Jenkins was presented in 1975,[20] and a scholarship in the Morgan State University department of music was named in her memory.