Category: Time Period
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Mary Beasley Burch
1906-2001 Mary Beasley Burch founded the Leaguers non-profit focused on the development of African American youth & was the first African American woman to serve on the Newark Board of Ed. & NJ…
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Emily Rollins Miles
1910-1999 Fashion designer. Known for her hats and for frequent fashion shows in Newark. Born Emma Rollins in Tennessee. Image from: Newark Library. Bibliograpjy “History of Queer Club Spaces in Newark | Queer…
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Musette Brooks Gregory
1876-1921 Musette Gregory was a suffragist and activist. She was a leader in the Urban League of Newark and Vice President of the Newark Branch of the NAACP. She was on the Executive…
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H. Blanche Harris
1878-1956 (Thanks to George Robb who did much research on Harris). Blanche Harris was active in the suffrage movement in Newark. She was president of the Lincoln Branch, Women’s Political Union of Newark.…
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Elsa Rehmann
1886-1946 Sister of Antoinette Perrett. Famed landscape architect. Large biography linked below from the Cultural Landscape Foundation. 1908 Barnard Graduate. 1904 Newark High graduate. Lived at 492 Mt. Prospect Ave. Bibliography
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Antoinette Rehmann Perrett
1880-1952 Garden photographer and magazine writer. Wrote for national publications. Sister of Elsa Rehmann. 492 Mt. Prospect Ave. Graduated Newark High School in 1897. Bibliography “Pictoral Photography Work Gains Success for Woman” April…
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Josephine Lawrence
1889-1978 Newark Sunday Call Children’s and Household Editor. Newark News Women’s Page Editor and Weekly Columnist. Wrote over 100 children’s book with Stratemayer and over 30 adult books. She attended Barringer High School…
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Louise Scott
1927-1983 Founder of the Scott School of Beauty Culture. Born in the South, she came to New York from the South as a domestic & then to Newark where she opened her first…