Black History Month 2025
Black History Month is a celebration to commemorate the achievements of African-American blacks in the history of the United States. Please join ULHS in celebrating these citizens and their contributions to the history of Brielle, New Jersey.
Jasper and Mattie Morgan
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Thomas Laws
Thomas Laws who was brought from Virginia to work as a domestic servant in the Bailey family's home in Brielle, NJ around 1900.
Maude Goode Moon
Maude Goode Moon, born in Luray, Virginia in 1887, worked for a doctor in Luray for many years before moving to Brielle in 1924. The mother of sixteen children, she became the town’s first Black mid wife.
Corbett Harvey
Harvey, born in 1896 in Rice, Virginia was brought to Manasquan by his brother, Frank Harvey, Sr., in 1913. Corbett first worked with the Van Sickle Company where he learned masonry. He worked with the Van Sickle Company building roads, buildings, bridges, and highways until 1941 when he went into business for himself as a contractor.
Leroy Mack
Leroy Mack, a skilled carpenter who went into business for himself after World War II, became the first Black member of the Brielle Board of Education. He served on the Board from 1950 to 1964. He also served as President of the Brielle Men’s Club and on the Community Development Block Grant Committee.
Alfred Oscar Kenney
Alfred O. Kenney Sr., also known as "Gilly," was a lifelong resident of Brielle, NJ, and a former Brielle Police Chief. He passed away on February 5, 2015, at the age of 79.
New Person
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Russell D. Stewart
Russell D. Stewart, who passed away on March 20, 2023, at the age of 92, was a longtime resident of Brielle, NJ. He was born in Princeton, Indiana, and later moved to Vincennes, Indiana