1887-1932

From North Carolina. Social worker who helped establish the Friendly Neighborhood House with Gladys Churchman and Louise Shugard. Stella Wright Homes was named after her.

She also helped to establish a Girls Club at the Belmont Ave and Montgomery Street Schools in 1926.

Photo from The Messenger

Bibliography

Cummings, Charles F. “From writers to singers these women enriched city” Star Ledger Jun 13, 2002

Cummings, Charles F. “Black pioneers opened new avenues for the downtrodden” Star Ledger Feb 19, 2004

Cogdell, Josephine. “Those Inimitable Avatars the Negroes and JewsThe Messenger 1925