Dr. Deborah Cannon Partridge Wolfe honored
Township of Cranford
The Dr. Deborah Cannon Partridge Wolfe Reading Garden in Lincoln Park was dedicated to honor the late Cranford native whose work in education and civil rights impacted lives of so many in this country. On May 13, 2024, friends, family, her sorority sisters, and community members gathered during the dedication ceremony. Rev. Alfred Brown of the First Baptist Church of Cranford gave the invocation.
Who Was Dr. Wolfe?
Cranford’s notable resident Dr. Wolfe was a trailblazer and a woman of firsts. She was the first African American to be named in the National Honor Society at Cranford High School, the first female to be ordained as a Baptist minister; the first African American faculty member at Queens College.
Leading the way in a number of notable civil rights and education initiatives, Dr. Wolfe is a woman the Township is proud to call one of Cranford’s most treasured citizens.
Visit the Cranford Historical Society website, cranfordhistoricalsociety.org, to learn more about Dr. Wolfe and her outstanding achievements—and see a photo of her on the grandstand with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during his “I Have a Dream” speech.
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