Newark Public Library will host local author and historian Guy Sterling in conversation with notable Newarkers Sheila Y. Oliver and Mildred Crump as part of its continuing series Newark Lifetimes: Recollections and Reflections. Assemblywoman Sheila Y. Oliver is a native Newarker, who served as New Jersey’s Assembly Speaker during the 214th and 215th Legislatures and is the first African-American woman to lead a legislative house in the state, and only the second African-American woman to lead a legislative house in the country. Municipal Council President Mildred C. Crump was Newark’s first African-American councilwoman and the first female Council president.
Free and open to the public. For more information and to RSVP, please call 973-733-7793.