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New Jersey Campaign for a Nuclear Freeze
The New Jersey Campaign for a Nuclear Freeze began in the 1980s. It was a part of a larger movement during the era calling for nuclear disarmament. The headquarters was opened on August 31st, 1982 in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Reverand Robert Moore was the chairman of the… -
Save Our Neighborhood Schools (SONS)
Save Our Neighborhood Schools (SONS) was an organization that opposed racial desegregation efforts in Englewood. According to the organization's leader, George Hatab, SONS believed that it was not the duty of the Englewood Board of Education to promote desegregation of schools… -
Englewood Tenants Association
Englewood Tenants Association was developed in the late 1960s. The president was John Carter. This organization was a gathering of tenants who called for action due to poor housing conditions including a lack of sanitation, inadequate utilities, and high rent prices.Tags Housing -
League of Women Voters (LWV)
The League of Women's Voters is an organization dedicated to helping women use their right to vote. It was founded by the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Chicago, on February 14, 1920. They have a chapter in Bergen County. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
The National American Women Suffrage Association was formed in 1890 when the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Suffrage Association (AWSA) merged. They were previously opposing groups due to disagreement over strategy. Elizabeth Casy Stanton became the… -
League of Women Voters, Bergen County
The League of Women's Voters is an organization dedicated to helping women use their right to vote. They have a chapter in Bergen County. -
Young Women's Christian Association, Northern New Jersey Branch
The YWCA of Ridgewood and Hackensack was founded in the 1920s in relation to the YWCA of the United States. They combined in the 1990s to form the YWCA Bergen County. In the 2010s, the institution expanded to serve women in Passaic, Bergen, Morris, Essex, and Hudson counties. -
Women's Political Union of New Jersey, Englewood Branch
The Women's Political Union of New Jersey (WPU) was founded by Mina Van Winkle in 1909. The group tended to be on the more militant side. It was primarily based in Essex. The Englewood Branch was organized as a separate branch of the Northern Valley Women's Political Union on… -
Englewood Movement
Early Resistance and the Frist School Crisis (1878-1884)The Englewood Movement of the 1960s did not arise suddenly in response to Brown v. Board of Education. Rather, it represented the culmination of nearly a century of resistance by Black parents who repeatedly confronted…