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Eloise Alma Flagg

1918–2018

United States

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Eloise Alma Williams Flagg (September 16, 1918 – March 10, 2018) was the first African-American woman to be a school principal in Newark, New Jersey and the first African-American principal in a racially integrated school in Newark. Alma Flagg Elementary School in Newark is named in her honor.

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