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DuBois, William Edward Burghardt (1868-1963)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was one of the most influential African American scholars, writers, historians, sociologists, and civil rights activists of the twentieth century, and a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).… -
Lamont, Corliss (1902-1995)
Corliss Lamont was an American socialist and philosopher. He received a degree from Harvard and spent 1924 at Oxford. He received a PhD from Columbia University and taught philosophy there. During the 1930s he became involved in political activism becoming a board member and… -
Abrams, Jack (1893-1964)
Jack Abrams was a police officer and police chief in Englewood. He started his career in 1911 as an auxiliary officer and joined the department in 1916. He served in World War I. In 1922 he became a sergeant and in 1924 he rose to captain. In 1937 he was one of the founders of…Tags Police -
Allison, William Outis (1849-1924)
William Outis Allison was a banker and philanthropist. He acted as vice president of the Palisades Trust and Guaranty Company of Englewood, president of the National Reserve Bank of New York, president of the publishing company that owned Oil, Pain and Drug Reporter, Druggist's… -
Amos, Gloria (1921?-2012)
Gloria L. Amos (1920–2012) was an Englewood-based writer, educator, and longtime public school staff member whose late-in-life literary work drew deeply on family, memory, and place. Born in the early twentieth century, Gloria Amos spent much of her adult life balancing work,…Tags Education -
Amos, John Allen, Jr. (1939-?)
John Allen Amos Jr. is an actor. Before his acting career, he did social work and played football. His first major work was on The Mary Tyler Moore Show from 1970 to 1973. He is most well-known for his part in Good Times from 1974 to 1976. Amos served as artistic director of… -
Anderson, Mary (1830-1941)
Mary Anderson (c. 1830–1941) was a formerly enslaved woman whose life spanned slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the early twentieth century. At the time of her death, she was believed to be 111 years old—an age attested to by family records and oral… -
Backer, Franklyn Edmund (1887-?)
Franklyn E. Backer was an early twentieth-century theater entrepreneur, film producer, and cultural booster whose work helped place Englewood on the regional entertainment map during the silent-film era. Born in Newark, New Jersey, on November 27, 1887, Backer was raised and…Tags Entertainment -
Baer, Anne Stewart (1933?-2003)
Anne Stewart Baer was involved in the Civil Rights Movement Freedom Rides. In 1962 she was arrested briefly for her protesting. She lived in Englewood with her husband, Byron M. Baer. They divorced in 1983. She had two children, David and Laura Baer Levine. -
Baer, Byron Mark (1929-2007)
Byron M. Baer (October 18, 1929 – June 24, 2007) was a civil rights activist, community organizer, and longtime Democratic legislator whose public life was deeply rooted in Englewood, New Jersey. Long before he became one of the state’s most influential champions of open…