Activism Archives - Page 104 of 305

Mina Caroline Van Winkle

Mina Van Winkle (1875-1932) of Newark organized the Equality League for Self-Supporting Women of New Jersey in 1908.

“The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all.”
—Mamie Till-Mobley, mother of Emmett Till, at a NAACP rally in Cleveland, Ohio, September 18, 1955

Marilyn Morheuser

Marilyn J. Morheuser (1924-1995), was the director and leading attorney of the Education Law Center in Newark, New Jersey.

Pauline Hillaire

Artist, teacher, native-arts conservator, author and storyteller, Pauline Hillaire worked to carry on the heritage of Washington’s Lummi Nation and was one of the most knowledgeable living resources of the Northwest Coast’s arts and culture.

Elizabeth Almira Allen

Elizabeth Almira Allen (1854-1919) was a teachers’ rights advocate and the first female president of the New Jersey Education Association.

Christina Huang

Christina Huang was a Chinese American student who testified before the New Jersey State of Legislators to help lobby for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) History to be taught in public schools.

Dorothy Daggett Eldridge

Dorothy Daggett Eldridge (1903-1986) a peace activist, founded the New Jersey Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) in 1958.

Florence Spearing Randolph

Florence Spearing Randolph (1866-1951) was a minister for the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

Katherine Schaub

Katherine Schaub (1902-1933) was a dial painter who played a pivotal role, with her court testimonies and self-documentation, in getting radium recognized as a harmful substance and subsequently phased out of use in manufacturing altogether.

Madaline Worthy Williams

Madaline Worthy Williams became New Jersey’s first black assemblywoman in 1958.