Category: 1910-1929 (Born)
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Annette “Tony” Doyle O’Flaherty
1920-2000 Annette O’Flaherty served in leadership roles in labor, social service, county and city. She was president of the CIO Women’s League of New Jersey, a member of the Newark local assistance board, Essex County Manpower Office director and spokeswoman, and chairwoman of Newark Emergency Services for Families Homeless Task Force. She was also active…
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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 Vice President of the Phi Omega Chi Sorority. She had also founded an interracial organization known as the Four Freedoms Action Committee.…
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Dorothy Turpin Smith
1910-1987 Dorothy Turpin was an early Black teacher in the Newark Public Schools hired in 1945. She was eventually appointed Supervisor of vocal music for the Newark schools and retired after 30 years in 1975. Dorothy was also an organist and choir director for over 50 years, especially at First Baptist Peddie and Philips Metropolitan.…
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Newark Policewomen Class of 1949
Photo from Star Ledger shows women in training, May 1949 [Photo shows Virginia Garber and Catherine Daly]. When policewoman were hired in 1949 they were considered by the newspaper, and presumably by all, to be the first hired “in 30 years” since the 1918 hiring of Margaret Dugan, Justina Eller and Etta Fallon. Some didn’t remember 1918, and…
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Rose Baldasare Maker
1913-1997 Rose Maker was the 1939 Women’s Singles NJ Tennis Champion and the Newark Open Champion 4 years in succession, sometimes playing against her sister Marie. She lived at 258 Van Buren St and Elm Street. She was a graduate of East Side High, born to Italian immigrants. She also played for the Ironbound women’s…
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Gladys Berry Francis
c. 1911-1993 Gladys Francis was director of Elementary Education for the Newark Public Schools from 1967-1978. Gladys previously taught at Charlton Street School and South 8th Street School and was Vice Principal at South 8th Street, Oliver Street and Bragaw Avenue Schools. She started teaching in 1936. Gladys was a member of the Phillis Wheatley…
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Wynona Moore Lipman
1923* -1999 Wynona Lipman is well known as the first Black woman in the New Jersey Senate. You can read her full detailed biography from the Center for American Women and Politics here. Some of Wynona’s early accomplishments are lesser known. She got a Fulbright scholarship at a young age, was a professor at Morehouse…
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Cabiria Assunta Polo Accarino
1914-2007 Cabiria Accarino lived in Newark most of her life. She ran for North Ward Council in 1962 and organized the Forest Hill Little Children’s Theater in 1959. Cabiria taught piano, voice and drama for many years and had her own Italian language radio program where she wrote her own material. She was involved in…