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Tag: women’s history month
Women’s History Month: Mary White Ovington, Co-Founder of the Astral’s Greenpoint Settlement and the NAACP
Ovington fought for civil rights and improved conditions for the city’s poor.
Roebling Liquors Feted Women-Owned Brands on International Women’s Day
The store is also women-owned!
The Irish Revolutionary and First Female Mayor of Dublin Who Lived in Greenpoint
It’s both Women’s History Month and the week before St. Patrick’s Day so it is totally fitting that we honor the most famous Irish woman who ever lived in Greenpoint- […]
Maria Stewart: America’s ‘First Black Woman Political Writer’ Who Taught in Williamsburg
This story was originally published in 2019.
Honoring Greenpoint’s Pioneering Female Factory Workers
The iconic industries of North Brooklyn were staffed by females who were underpaid and often worked in dangerous conditions. It’s high time we honor these anonymous, but heroic local workers. […]
New York City’s First Black Principal Sarah Tompkins Garnet Began Her Career in Williamsburg
March is Women’s History Month when we celebrate the achievements of North Brooklyn’s greatest women. Sarah Tompkins Garnet was not only the first black woman to serve as a […]
Olympian Connie Darnowski: Greenpoint’s Greatest Ever Female Athlete
Hurdler Connie Darnowski represented the United States in the 1952 and 1956 Olympic games and is the greatest female athlete our area ever produced. Her success is all the more […]
The Greenpoint Woman Who Ran For President?
Belva Lockwood was an early feminist and one of the first women to ever run for president. She ran twice in 1884 and again in 1888 in the days before […]
Women’s History Month: Mae West, Feminist and Progressive
A lot of people know that movie star Mae West was born in 1893 on Herbert Street and that she became a and one of Hollywood’s first sex symbols, but […]