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Emily Rollins Miles
1910-1999 Fashion designer. Known for her hats and for frequent fashion shows in Newark. Born Emma Rollins in Tennessee. Image from: Newark Library. Bibliograpjy “History of Queer Club Spaces in Newark | Queer Newark”‘ Kukla, Barbara. Defying the Odds: Triumphant Black Women of Newark Newark Library Digitized Items. (2) “Clipped From Daily News”‘ Stewart, Nikita…
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Musette Brooks Gregory
1876-1921 Musette Gregory was a suffragist and activist. She was a leader in the Urban League of Newark and Vice President of the Newark Branch of the NAACP. She was on the Executive Committee of the New Jersey Suffrage Ratification Committee during the suffrage struggle. Musette was secretary of the NJ State Federation of Colored Womens…
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H. Blanche Harris
1878-1956 (Thanks to George Robb who did much research on Harris). Blanche Harris was active in the suffrage movement in Newark. She was president of the Lincoln Branch, Women’s Political Union of Newark. She spoke around the state on suffrage in this role. Harris was also active in political campaigning. In 1912, she worked on…
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Elsa Rehmann
1886-1946 Sister of Antoinette Perrett. Famed landscape architect. Large biography linked below from the Cultural Landscape Foundation. 1908 Barnard Graduate. 1904 Newark High graduate. Lived at 492 Mt. Prospect Ave. Bibliography
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Antoinette Rehmann Perrett
1880-1952 Garden photographer and magazine writer. Wrote for national publications. Sister of Elsa Rehmann. 492 Mt. Prospect Ave. Graduated Newark High School in 1897. Bibliography “Pictoral Photography Work Gains Success for Woman” April 10, 1927, Newark Sunday Call Godine, David R. The Once and Future Gardener Census records. Article in Newark High Annual
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Josephine Lawrence
1889-1978 Newark Sunday Call Children’s and Household Editor. Newark News Women’s Page Editor and Weekly Columnist. Wrote over 100 children’s book with Stratemayer and over 30 adult books. She attended Barringer High School where “her penchant for writing and her inclination towards shyness, already marked the person she would be throughout her life.” Bibliography “Sunday…
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Louise Scott
1927-1983 Founder of the Scott School of Beauty Culture. Born in the South, she came to New York from the South as a domestic & then to Newark where she opened her first beauty shop in 1944. This expanded into five shops and then a school. Known as Newark’s first Black woman millionaire. Scott was…
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Dorothea H Wingert
1905-1990 Started writing for Newark newspapers in her teens. Wrote dozens of articles for a series on business and professional women in NJ in 1926-1927 when she was 21-22. In Jun 1926 placed in charge of the Call’s resort news bureau at Asbury Park. Also wrote for Catholic Advocate and Elizabeth Daily Journal before retiring…
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Brenda Estelle Ray Moryck
1894-1945 Black writer and social activist born in Newark. Worked with Newark Bureau of Charities. She published short stories, essays, and book reviews in national journals and magazines. Photo from Wellesley College. At the time of her graduation from Wellesley in 1916 her address was 61 Kearny (31 Kearney seems to be the correct address)…
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Florence Haines
1869-1955 Secretary of the New Jersey Women’s Political Union Charter Member of the Newark League of Women Voters New Jersey Assembly Representative from 1926-1931 Lifelong Resident of Newark. Graduated Newark High in 1888. Supervisor of Music in Newark Public Schools Sister of Margaret Haines, first sisters in the General Assembly. Photo from Rutgers Special Collections.…