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Margaret Moore
Margaret Cannon Moore, Margaret Akins 1908 – 1979 Margaret Moore, who the Afro American called “a great lady” was a senior citizen advocate and active in civic Newark life. After her death, the Court Tower Apartments were named in her honor. In 1971, she was cited as one of the NJ Afro American Women of…
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Anna Lundy Lewis
1916-2002 Anna Lundy Lewis (“Madame” Anna Lundy Lewis) was a virtuoso piano and organ player, gospel star, and minster of music at New Hope Baptist Church. She performed with Bing Crosby, Aretha Franklin and Sarah Vaughan and taught piano and vocals to hundreds of people including Doris Duke. She was called, “a pioneer who’s career…
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Dorothea Lee
1930 – 2007 Dorothea Lee involved in multiple organizations serving high positions in the Newark NAACP, National Association of Negro Business and Professional Womens’ Clubs, and heading American Veteran’s Post 5, the first woman to do so. She was also the first Black woman member of the New Jersey Air National Guard. Friend Tracy Mumford…
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Lucye Harrington Lee
1907-2000 Lucye Harrington Lee was known as a “volunteer extraordinaire” around Newark. Connie Woodruff said, “In an age where money often motivates people Lucye is the epitome of a true volunteer.” Lucye was also social editor of the New Jersey Afro American for many years starting in 1947. At University Hospital, she was called the…
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Mildred Kaiser
1903-1991 Mildred Kaiser taught at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts for 62 years. She was also an artist and calligrapher, giving private instruction and doing her own work in graphic arts, including with various advertising firms. She showed art at Newark Library in 1978 and 1979. In 1968 she illustrated the book Creative…
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Althea Gibson
1927-2003 Althea Gibson was a world-championship tennis player from East Orange. A statue of Althea stands in Branch Brook Park, Newark and the tennis courts were named after her in 2002. Althea was very involved in the Newark community. In 1998, she founded the Althea Gibson Foundation which partnered with the City of Newark, Newark…
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Carla Dunlap
1954- Carla Dunlap was born and raised in Newark where she competed in swimming and gymnastics and attended Maple Avenue School and the Arts High, graduating in 1971, when she was voted Most Athletic, along with Larry Hamm, now a Newark activist. She lived at 63 Scheerer Ave. In 1973, she won the AAU solo…
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Sister June Favata
c. 1940 — Sister June worked for over 50 years at Saint Vincent’s Academy in Newark, where she was English teacher, program director, vice principal, administrative director and president of St. Vincent Academy, Inc. Her obituary said, “Known as the heart and soul of Saint Vincent Academy, Sister June dedicated her life to the education…
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Florence M. Rose
1876-? Florence M. Rose was one of the earliest lawyers in NJ, she was admitted to the bar in 1898, when only three other women had passed the bar, one of whom was Mary Philbrook. In 1902, Florence passed her counselor at law exam. She said she found her work “very fascinating” and would advise…
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Paula Laddey
1880-1966 Paula Laddey was an early woman lawyer in Newark serving from 1913-1950, during some of which she had her own Newark office. She served eight years as the assistant probation officer of Essex County. In 1914, she became attorney and executive secretary of the Legal Aid Society of New Jersey, in Newark, where she…