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4 unusual facts about Nellie Morrow Parker


Nellie Morrow Parker

Nellie K. Morrow Parker (August 27, 1902 – January 25, 1998) was the first African American school teacher in Bergen County, New Jersey.

During her early years of teaching she and her family were subject to racism from the Ku Klux Klan and other organizations.

She became the first African-American public school teacher in Bergen County, New Jersey in 1922 when she was hired to teach the fifth and sixth grades in the Hackensack, New Jersey public school system.

In 1928 she married William L. Parker (1900-?) of Virginia.



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