…Smith Garnet. Sarah Smith Garnet. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. On April 30, 1863, Sarah Smith Garnet became the first African American woman principal in the New York City school…
Read MoreIn the late 1880s, Brooklyn-born Sarah Smith Garnet helped found the Equal Suffrage League, a Brooklyn-based club for Black women, which worked with the Niagara Movement, a predecessor to the…
Read More50 West 13th Street (l.) and Sarah Smith Tompkins Garnet This past November we shared that our research discovered that trailblazing black suffragist and educator Sarah Smith Tompkins Garnet lived at 50 West 13th Street around…
Read More…death in 1882. 175 MacDougal Street. Left photo (1969) courtesy of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, right photo (2019) courtesy of Village Preservation. Garnet’s wife, Sarah Smith Garnet, was also…
Read More…a sermon that honored the successes of the Union Army and the effort to abolish slavery. Garnet’s wife, Sarah Smith Garnet, also championed abolitionism and women’s suffrage. Born on July…
Read More…female physician in New York State. Her sister, Sarah Smith Garnet, was the first African-American female principal in the New York City school system, and the founders of the first…
Read More…to some extraordinary Black leaders. Susan Smith McKinney Steward was the first African-American female physician in New York State. Her sister, Sarah Smith Garnet, was the first Black female principal…
Read More…Pioneers Converge on MacDougal Street: Dr. Robert Hogan, Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, and Sarah Smith Garnet Beyond the Village and Back: The Brotherhood Synagogue, 28 Gramercy Park South African Free…
Read More…Village resident) as doing “much to elevate the Negro in self-respect and self-support.” Sarah Smith Garnet, seated with her family Dr. Garnet’s future wife Sarah Smith Tompkins Garnet lived here…
Read More…is one of the most important, overlooked historic figures in American history. Sarah Smith Garnet Sarah Smith Garnet and 175 MacDougal Street as it appears today Garnet was the founder…
Read More…ways than this. He worked with and inspired a number of our renowned residents, and his name reappears often and unexpectedly across different histories. Sarah Smith Garnet. In 1911, suffragist,…
Read More…and activist whose “The Feminine Mystique” profoundly shaped second wave feminism, she co-founded and was the first President of NOW. Sarah Smith Garnett — Leading educator and women’s suffragist who…
Read More…and activist whose “The Feminine Mystique” profoundly shaped second wave feminism, she co-founded and was the first President of NOW. Sarah Smith Garnett — Leading educator and women’s suffragist who…
Read More…Friedan — Writer and activist whose “The Feminine Mystique” profoundly shaped second wave feminism, she co-founded and was the first President of NOW. Sarah Smith Garnett — Leading educator and…
Read More…and empowerment. This Women’s History Month, we offer many ways for you to celebrate, explore, and help protect the rich women’s history in our neighborhoods: Suffragist Sarah Smith Garnet’s home…
Read More…and civil rights leader Sarah Smith Garnett, who lived at 175 MacDougal Street, from our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map — click to access Our expanded and redesigned Civil Rights and…
Read MoreSarah Smith Garnet, seated, with her family (left); Abyssinian Baptist Church at 166 Waverly Place Juneteenth is this Sunday, and commemorates the day in 1865 when freedom was announced for…
Read More…events that made it possible. Suffragist, educator, and civil rights leader Sarah Smith Garnett, who lived at 175 MacDougal Street, from our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map — click…
Read MoreOur neighborhoods are renowned for their rich cultural history and storied past. While often associated with artistic bohemia and progressive movements, our streets hold a lesser-known narrative that significantly shaped…
Read MoreThis February, we invite you to explore our neighborhoods’ rich African American history, and to join us in advocating to honor and protect significant historic sites, many of them endangered….
Read More…three such remarkable women: African American Sarah Smith Garnet, Chinese American Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, and Julia Ward Howe. 19th Amendment Centennial StoryMap Doctors In The House: Blackwell Sisters and…
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