Estelle Stuckelman Greenberg

Oct 5, 2024

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in 1930-1959 (Born), Activists and Community Leaders, Jewish Women

1933-

Estelle Greenberg was an activist in Newark in the 1960s. Among other roles she was: chairman of Essex County Concerned Democrats, ran the Freedom Democratic Party in Newark and was a leader in the South Ward Independent Voters League.

Estelle and her husband Gerald lives at 17 Porter Ave in Weequahic.

Some of her activism in the community follows:

John Johnson wrote, “Nadaline Dworkin and Estelle Greenberg organized a sit-in where Weequahic’s Black students would attend class at the less crowded and racially segregated Maple Avenue School….the significance of direct action in Weequahic cannot be dissociated from the Civil Rights Movement and acts of non-violent protest in the South.”

In 1965, she hosted a cocktail party for the South Ward Independent Voters League which was raided by police and all participants were arrested including famed Newarkers Stanley Winters and Derek Winans. She claimed was political harassment and it was covered by the Newark News.

In 1966 the Greenbergs held a fundraising party attended by Stokely Carmichael.

Estelle was on the 1967 Committee of Concern after the Newark Rebellion. The Newark News noted that in 1967 Greenberg was a freeholder challenger.

In March 1969, Estelle helped organize the convention of the New Democratic Coalition of Essex County.

In May 1969 Estelle was appointed a member of the Greater Newark Research and Planning Institute, a nonprofit “think tank” to address problems in Newark.

From 1969-1970 she worked with Hilda Hildalgo to draft George C Richardson for Mayor, however, Richardson ended up endorsing Ken Gibson.

Estelle grew up in Chatham. Gerald and Estelle were married in NYC in 1951. For many years Gerald and Estelle lived in West Orange where she served as a hospital admin. In 2009, she served on a panel about the Newark Riots and Jews and Blacks in Weequahic with Nadaline Wolfson Dworkin and Robert Curvin.