New Jersey Women's History
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Education 1837 Hannah
Hoyt (1805 - 1871) In 1837, Hannah Hoyt began teaching a group of
young girls in a 1844 Carrie Cook Sanborn, nineteenth century Quaker, artist, head of the Cedars Art Colony, Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, 1844. 1858 Eagleswood House at the Raritan Bay Union, 1858. 1860 Opheleton Seminary for Young Ladies; Plainfield, 1860. 1865 Mary Mapes Dodge (1831-1905) Tablet. 1887 New Jersey School Suffrage Act enfranchised rural and small town women in school matters, 1887. c. 1890 Evelyn College, c. 1890, a photograph of students. 1903 College of St. Elizabeth, 1903, a photograph of the first graduating class. 1909 Ridgewood High School Women's Basketball Team, 1909. c. 1910s Mother Mary Xavier Mehegan (1825-1915), Roman Catholic religious, educator, and founder of the Sisters of Charity of New Jersey. c. 1910s Florence Peshine Eagleton, (1870-1953), the first woman to serve as a trustee of Rutgers University. 1913 "Some Things Accomplished at Whittier House" 19th annual Report of Whittier House. 1915 Whittier House Kindergarten Class, 1915. c. 1920 The Clara Barton School, Bordentown, from a postcard c. 1920. c. 1925 Douglass College Students, c. 1925. c. 1927 Nellie Morrow Parker (1902-), the first African American school teacher in Bergen County. 1928 Lillian Ford Feickert (1877-1945), president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association, 1912-1920. 1928 Whittier House Cooking Class. 1932 New Jersey Organization of Colored Teachers Teachers’ organizations, such as the National Education Association, were not racially integrated until the 1950s. 1932 Domestic Science Class. New Jersey State Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, Bordentown. 1936 Invitation to attend the organizational meeting of the World Center for Women’s Archives, 1936. 1940 Child Labor on New Jersey Farms, 1940. 1941 100 Famous Jersey Women, news article about the World Center for Women’s Archives, 1941. 1952 Racially Integrated Classroom, Berlin Township, 1952. 1962 Marie Hilson Katzenbach, (1882-1970), an advocate for education in New Jersey. 1968 Science students at Felician College, 1968. 1972 Male and Female Students at Rutgers College, 1972. 1975 "Equity in Educational Programs," 1975. The text of the regulations published by the New Jersey Department of Education to implement equal education requirements. c. 1980s Marilyn J. Morheuser (1924-1995), an influential litigator of public school finance issues. 1993 Christine Todd Whitman (1946-). Campaign flyer, "Christie Whitman’s Blueprint for a Better Education," 1993. |
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