Category: Education, Museums and Libraries
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Eleta Caldwell
1945-2017 Eleta Caldwell was principal at Arts High School 1991-2003, previously Chair of Art and teacher at the school. Eleta was an artist who co-founded in the 1980s the “Black Women in Visual Perspective” Group which included Gladys Grauer. She exhibited at City Without Walls, and other galleries across the state and nation including MoMA…
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Gladyce Black Sherman
1908-1995 Gladyce Black Sherman was an artist and educator. She was a member of the faculty of the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts for over 20 years, also graduated from the school. Her work was exhibited at the Newark Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Art Center of the Oranges, and in NYC. Charter member,…
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Mildred Lockett Lipscombe
1922-2025? Mildred Lipscombe was one the library’s first Black librarians (possibly the third), hired 8 years after Theresa Moore, and after Elitea Allison. After graduating Virginia Union University, and then the University of Illinois (MLIS), she became a junior librarian in 1946. In 1949, she took place in a library course on “Great Books” and…
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Theresa Knight Moore
*See below note on surnames 15 Mar 1907 – Feb 16, 1983 Theresa Knight Moore was the first African American employed at Newark Public Library in a professional position. Theresa became a “library assistant” at Springfield Branch in 1937, which was likely a librarian position. The appointment was made with the help of the Urban…
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Louise Connolly
1862-1927 Louise Connolly was longtime educational advisor to the Newark Library and Museum. She wrote many publications and trained museum apprentices. The Newark News wrote, “She made many important contributions to the problems of education…She was considered to be an inspiring teacher, a remarkable organizer of though, a writer and speaker of extraordinary facility and…
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Wilma Jackson Grey
1945- Wilma Grey was the first African American woman to be the director of Newark Public Library, from 2005-2015. She was an employee of the Newark Public Library for 46 years. Wilma grew up in Newark, near the library’s Roseville branch where she enjoyed reading Nancy Drew. She graduated Arts High School in 1962, as…
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Margaret Coult
c. 1859 -1930 Margaret Coult was head of the English department for the Newark high school system and a teacher at Barringer for many years. She was a trustee of the library and museum and author of several books on education. She was the sister and daughter of Eliza and Frances Coult. The Newark News…
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Margaretta T Craven
c. 1853-1935 Margaretta Craven founded Miss Craven’s School in Newark, which she opened in Spring 1875 and ran until 1915. When Margaretta retired in 1915, the school was taken over by Mrs. William Lamont. Mrs. Lamont acquired Prospect Hill School in 1918 and merged the schools to form Prospect Hill Country Day School which was…