Englewood Makes History

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  • Vincente K. Tibbs was a social worker, Englewood Movement leader, and City Council president from the 4th ward. He a Democrat and was elected in 1960. He worked to help race relations between white and black residents. Tibbs lived in Harlem and graduated from DeWitt Clinton High…
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  • Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was one of the most consequential figures in American sports history. Widely celebrated as the architect of the Green Bay Packers dynasty and memorialized through the NFL’s championship trophy, Lombardi was also a…
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  • Hatcher Irwin Norris was the first African American teacher hired in Englewood Schools. He taught industrial arts. He was recruited for World War II and served as a First Lieutenant, He was killed in action.
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  • Carl Winfree is the father of American Football Player Juwann Winfree and co-founder of the Team Winfree Foundation.
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  • Shelia Elaine Frazier is an American actress, model, and producer. Her first film was Super Fly in 1972. She played Georgia, the girlfried of Youngblood Priest. She grew up in Manhattan until age ten. She moved to Englewood with her mother and attended Dwight Morrow High…
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  • Willie Howard Mays Jr. was an American professional baseball player. He began in the Negro American League with the Black Barons. He began playing in the Major Baseball League with the Giants in 1950. He was extremely decorated and is regarded as one of the best baseball…
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  • Paul W. Smalbein was a business owner. He was the son of Gustave A. Smalbein. In 1928 he reestablished his family bakery and opened numerous stores in the nearby area. He married Lura Nell Beville. He had two children, Paul W. Smalbein Jr. and Mrs. Robert Frantz. 
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  • Gustave A. Smalbein was a local business owner. He founded Smalbein's Bakery Products in 1900 in Englewood. Smalbein's was one of the first, if not the first, Jewish bakeries in downtown Englewood. He retired in 1918 but helped his son Paul W. reestablish the Bakery in 1928. He…
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  • Charles H. Greenberg was a politician. He lived in Englewood for fifty-five years. He was elected to the Englewood Council for the fourth ward. He was the first councilman to be elected for three terms. He served from 1920 to 1929. He also was appointed chief custodian of the…
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  • Livingston Farrand was a physician, anthropologist, psychologist, and public health activist. He graduated from Princeton in 1888. He earned a M.D. from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1891. He also attended Cambridge and Berlin University. In 1905 he became…
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