News and Events: "Women Leaders from Rutgers University
Collections" Exhibition at Douglass Library; opens Jan. 30th
Photos, and documents from fifteen pioneering women will be on
display in an exhibition at the Douglass Library starting
January 30th. "Women Leaders from Rutgers University
Collections" draws on the historic holdings of the Associate
Alumnae of Douglass College, the Rutgers University Libraries'
Institute of Jazz Studies, and the Libraries Special Collections
and University Archives. The exhibition highlights the
accomplishments of 15 women who achieved prominence in the arts,
business, education, politics, and science. The women featured
in the exhibition are: - Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005), the first
African-American woman to serve in the US Congress and the first
African American to run for the United States presidency. -
Mabel Smith Douglass (1877-1933), founder and first dean of the
New Jersey College for Women, who acted in response to the
disparity in educational funding between men and