Evelyn Wynona Lipman (née Moore; 1923[1] – May 9, 1999) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented the 29th Legislative District in the New Jersey Senate.
Her parents met as students at Clark College in Atlanta, and her father owned a pharmacy and worked as a bricklayer.
She and her siblings (John Jr., Eloise, and Donald) were educated at public schools in LaGrange and were also taught by their mother at home.
At Morehouse, she served as a tutor for Martin Luther King Jr.[1] She received a Rockefeller Foundation grant to pursue a Ph.D. at Columbia University.
After the birth of their two children, Karyne Ann and William, Lipman taught part-time at Montclair High School.
[8] In the Senate, Lipman served on the Governor's Advisory Council on AIDS and on the Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect.
[13] In 2003, Kean University dedicated the Wynona Moore Lipman Ethnic Studies Center in her honor.