Category: Activists and Community Leaders
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Abigail Malmgreen
1909-2009 1926 Graduate of Barringer High. Worked at Bamberger’s Department Store and then for the Newark Welfare Department. Lifelong political activist. Member of the United Nations Association, Americans for Democratic Action, the NAACP,…
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Connie Woodruff (Williams)
1921-1996 Journalist, labor organizer, educator. City editor of the New Jersey Herald News. Also wrote On the Scene in Jersey for the New York Amsterdam News. Active in the NAACP and the Leaguers.…
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Nancy Zak
1948- Community organizer for environmental justice and housing with Ironbound Community Corporation. Key figure in the HUD Tenants Coalition. Rutgers Gus Heningburg Fellow. Organized to save Riverbank Park in the Ironbound when it…
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Sally Carroll
1922-2019 One of the first Black policewomen along with Rhoda Daniels and Eleanor M. Stokes . Actively involved with the Newark branch of the NAACP for 40+ years, served as President. Served on…
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Hannah Mandeville
1811-1902 Born into slavery, one of the first members of the African American Plane St. Church and active in the church. Her obituary (see: Black Power 19th Century) said she was “well known…
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Amina Baraka
1942- Amina Baraka is an American poet, actress, author, community organizer, singer, dancer, and activist. She graduated from Arts High School. Bibliography “Amina Baraka – Queer Newark”. queer.newark.rutgers.edu. Barbara J Kukla Papers “Amina Baraka”.…
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Augusta Parsonnet
1870-1949 President, Women’s Political Union of New Jersey; President, League of Women Voters of Newark. Lived in Weequahic and Lincoln Park. Bibliography Robb, George. Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists. John James Scannell, New Jersey’s…
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Rebecca Andrade Doggett
1941- Founder of Tri City People’s Corp. First Director of the Essex County Office of Citizen’s Services, the founding Executive Director of the Head Start Program and the Newark Preschool Council, and the…