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Nellie K. Parker
« on: January 08, 2015, 08:58:09 AM »
Nellie Parker School in Hackensack honors the city's first African-American teacher
January 8, 2015    Last updated: Thursday, January 8, 2015, 1:21 AM
By JEFFREY PAGE
SPECIAL TO THE RECORD
The Record

Nellie (Morrow) Parker battled racism to become a beloved teacher in Hackensack.

The definition of courage could well have been formulated in the early 1920s in Hackensack by a young woman who just wanted to teach children how to read, add and subtract. But the Ku Klux Klan and its allies, plus angry parents of school-age kids, could not accept the notion of a black woman teaching white kids, and so they tried to run her out of town.

However, she was hired, and 60 years later the Maple Hill School in Hackensack was renamed the Nellie K. Parker School in her honor.

http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/the-name-dropper-school-honors-woman-who-was-city-s-first-black-teacher-1.1188244?page=all
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