Women of Camden County Bonnie Beth Elwell

As a second visit to our club from the Camden Country Historical Society,

 Bonnie Beth Elwell told about women in Camden County who were prominent in our  state and national history.

After a short introduction by Saul Resnick, Bonnie took us through an extensive presentation of the women and their contributions to our state and nation.

 Where it all started

 NOTE: After the Revolutionary War, women in New Jersey had the right to vote due to the large Quaker population and their beliefs in equality. That ended in 1807. It wasn't until the passage of equal suffrage in 1919 that they got it back.

Jessie Fauset was born in Fredericksville (now Lawnside) New Jersey.

Fauset was the only African-American graduate in her class at Philadelphia High School for Girls. She was a class of 1905 graduate of Cornell University and the first African-American woman graduate in Phi Beta Kappa. She served as the literary editor (under W.E.B. DuBois) of The Crisis, the journal of the NAACP, from 1919 to 1926. 58 of her 77 published works first appeared in the journal's pages. She is the author of four novels, There Is Confusion (1924), Plum Bun (1928), The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life (1931), and Comedy, American Style (1933). She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta.