Category: 1910-1929 (Born)
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Maria DeCastro Blake
1911-2011 Maria DeCastro Blake (1911-2011) was a dean of admissions at Rutgers and recruited hundreds of Hispanic students. She was key to ASPIRA, the Puerto Rican Congress, the Black & Puerto Rican Coalition…
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Marie Anderson Bagby
1925-2003 Marie Bagby (1925-2003) was a teacher starting in 1944, and eventually principal at Barringer, West Side and University High Schools. She also served on the board of St. Michael’s Medical Center. Photo…
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Elvira Rodrigues
1918-1985 Elvira Rodrigues (left) co-owned an oil firm. She was a community leader in the Ironbound, leader in many Portuguese organizations, member of the East Side High board and delegate to the Democratic…
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Sophie L Cooper
1912-1971 Sophie L. Cooper was Newark’s first elected councilwoman, in the South Ward from 1957-1962. Photo from Newark Public Library. Bibliography Digitized letters from Newark Library C-35, Cooper, Samuel E., Mrs., Newark News…
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Bernice Bass
1926-2000 Bernice Bass (right) had a major presence in the city’s music, radio, & political scenes. She had a Sunday evening radio program on WNJR: News & Views. She was influential in the…
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Hilda Hidalgo
1928-2009 Hilda Hidalgo (second from right) was a Newark activist. In Newark, she co-founded Aspira of New Jersey, La Casa de Don Pedro and the Puerto Rican Congress and worked with numerous other…
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M. Bernadine Johnson Marshall
1923-1997 Marie B. Johnson, of Newark, was one of the first African American women in NJ to be admitted to the NJ bar in 1949 with Martha Belle Williams. She graduated Rutgers Newark…
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E. Alma Williams Flagg
1918-2018 Alma Flagg was the first African American principal of an integrated school in Newark in 1964, in 1967 she was appointed assistant superintendent. She also wrote poetry. She was appointed principal after…