Category: 1910-1929 (Born)
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Marion Roberson Kidd
1928-2012 Born in Newark. Worked 15 years with the North Jersey Community Union later named Newark Community Health Center, as a Social Outreach Manager and clerk in the Social Security program. She was…
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Dorothy Gould
1922 – 2015 Early Black teacher, hired in 1943 for $144 a month at Cleveland Junior High as a “permanent sub” since Black teachers couldn’t be officially hired above primary level. Later, principal…
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Katherine Bell Banks
1912-2008 Photo from Vailsburg yearbook 1973. Born in Tennessee, the Banks family shared a home with the WEB Dubois family in New York before moving to Newark in 1922. She graduated Barringer in…
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Curvin Family
The sisters of historian Robert Curvin. There were six daughters. They were born in Newark, but they grew up in Belleville. The family lived on Cottage Place and other addresses in Newark through…
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Annette “Tony” Doyle O’Flaherty
1920-2000 Served in leadership roles in many social service organizations. She was a trade-union activist and president of the CIO Women’s League of New Jersey from the mid-1950s through the early 1960s. In…
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Naomi Sylvia Charner Campbell
1925-2017 Naomi Charner was a graduate of South Side High who lived at 712 Bergen St and 140 Somerset St in Newark. In 1947, she attended Upsala College and was a senior and…
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Dorothy Turpin Smith
1910-1987 An early Black teacher, hired in 1945 (see Timeline, bottom of page here). Was eventually appointed Supervisor of Music for Vocal Instruction for Newark. Retired after 30 years in 1975. Was an…
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Newark Policewomen Class of 1949
Photo from Star Ledger shows women in training, May 1949. Though police matrons existed and 12 policewomen were listed as acting as of 1947 including Claire Gonzales, Josephone B Renz, and Mary Knapp,…