History Archives - Page 11 of 27

Cornelia Walker Bailey

As a member of the last generation of African Americans born and educated on Sapelo Island, Cornelia Bailey became one of Georgia’s most vocal defenders of her homeland and its African American heritage.

Ruth Marcus Patt

Active member of the Jewish community of New Brunswick in New Jersey.

Julia Pardoe

1800s UK author

Ellen Creathorne Clayton

Irish illustrator and writer

Chary Gumeta

Mexican poet and art promoter.

Julia Keese Nelson Colles

Julia Keese Nelson Colles (1840-1913) was an American academic and a founding member of the Women’s Board of the New Jersey Historical Society.

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.

Marion Thompson Wright

African American historian and teacher Marion Thompson Wright (1902-1962) of Newark wrote her doctoral dissertation on “The Education of Negroes in New Jersey.”

Elizabeth Cary

1600s Viscountess Falkland , writer and translator

Elizabeth Casey

Irish author (as ‘E. Owens Blackburne ’)