1895-1998
Lucy Karr Millburn was a suffragist who marched on Washington, DC in 1913. She was a New Jersey delegate of the National Woman’s Party to the Mass Meeting for Equal Rights in Industry at the US Department of Labor’s Industrial Conference and a Member of the New Jersey division of the National Woman’s Party.
Lucy was also President of the Newark, NJ Interracial Council, where she wrote this summary of the movement and contributed to this letter published in the Newark Herald.
She was co-founder and Secretary of the Urban League Guild of Newark, which helped integrate Newark’s swimming pools and get Black doctors in City Hospital. She was also published author and poet.
Born in Newark, lived most of her life into her 90s at 822 Degraw Ave in Forest Hill. She was a 1913 Barringer graduate. She was a lifelong Quaker.
More detailed biography by Catherine Logendyck linked below. Her mother Minnie Karr was also an activist.
Bibliography
Biographical Sketch written by Catharine Longendyck
“Lucy Milburn, 103, A Fighter for Human Rights” Star Ledger May 28, 1998
Galop and Logendyck Forest Hill
Sterling. Famous, Familiar and Forgotten