[1] During her career, Pennington greeted and hosted historic world figures, activists, and civil rights leaders including, Ambassador Andrew Young, Gil Noble, Bill Cosby, Jesse Jackson, Moms Mabley, Eleanor Roosevelt, Haile Selassie, Mary McLeod Bethune, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X.

[4] In 1958, Pennington stepped into the political arena, working on a number of fund-raising campaigns for Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and community organizations.

In 1960 she formed and supervised The Glamourettes a group of young women who campaigned for the John F. Kennedy Presidential run.

[5] She received the Samuel Proctor Phoenix Award from the Abyssinian Development Corporation on March 26, 1992 and chosen a Democratic County committee member of the 70th Assembly District 56 ED on October 1, 1983 by New York Assemblywoman Geraldine Daniels and U.S.

Pennington received the Adam Powell Merit Award (for Community Activity and Political Relations from the Alfred E. Isaac Club of Democrats from Cong.

Congressman Charles Rangel 16th District of New York presented Pennington with an Outstanding Achievement Recognition Award.

[6] In the House of Representatives on 11 March 2011, Senator Charles Rangel spoke of women like Pennington as 'precious gifts we temporarily have in this world, but their assistance, contributions and accomplishments are far remembered and everlasting.'