Category: African Americans
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Catherine Mouserrone Lynch
1876-1939 Founding Secretary Phyllis Wheatley Society, secretary of the Board of Management of Colored Home for Aged and Orphans, for 32 years. She was also involved in the 250th anniversary of Newark celebration.…
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Edwina Johnson Hale
1933-2019 Alt names: Bailey, Manigault, Mason Edwina Johnson lived with her parents and siblings at 56 Ridgewood Ave in Newark and attended South Side High (now Shabazz). Her father was a taxi driver. In…
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Mae Massie Eberhardt (Mary Graves)
1915-2007 Union leader and activist for nearly 35 years. During most of her union work from the 1950s to 1970s she is listed as being a Newark resident. Born in Virginia as Mary…
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Myrtle L. Bruton Hartsfield
1934-2001 First woman to be named to Newark’s Alcohol and Beverage Control Board in 1981. She said, “I am very proud to be the first woman on the Board. We do have a…
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Melba Moore
1945 (1941?)*- Internationally known singer and actress. Attended Arts High School as “Beatrice Melba Smith (Moorman)” and lived at 283 Rose St. She also attended Waverly Avenue Elementary School and Cleveland Jr. High.…
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Sheila D Banks
1956-1992 Sheila Banks was 2nd in the Class of 1974 at Weequahic High School. She was the first Black women to graduate from Steven’s Institute of Technology in 1978 (the school began admitting…
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Huldah Clark
1947- Huldah Clark made international news in 1961. Her family lived in the Christopher Columbus Housing Projects, with 6 children. Her father could not afford living expenses for the whole family, and also…
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Ida Clark
1921-2006 Tenant advocate and NHA Commissioner, who had a “colorful and charismatic” personality and was known as “Mother Clark”. Appointed as a NHA commsioner in 1986, where she pushed education and programs for…