Englewood Makes History

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  • Charles Lindbergh Jr., born on the Next Day Hill Morrow Estate in Englewood NJ, was the son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh Sr. When he was twenty months old he was kidnapped and murdered. His death led to the Lindbergh law which made crossing state lines while…
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  • Charles Augustus Lindbergh Sr. was a military officer and aviator. He joined the U.S. Air Force in 1924. He became a second lieutenant in 1925. On March 20th and 21st, Lindbergh became the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris on his craft Spirt of St. Louis. He was…
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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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  • Donald MacKay was one of Englewood’s most respected civic leaders in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, known for his military service, public leadership, and lasting philanthropic contributions. A veteran of the Civil War, MacKay enlisted as a young man and saw…
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  • Russell Cameron Major (1932–1997) was a central figure in Englewood, New Jersey’s civil rights history and one of the city’s most persistent advocates for school integration and civic participation. Raised in Englewood during a period of entrenched residential and educational…
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  • Israel Raphael Margolies was a spiritual leader and civil rights activist. He graduated from the Jewish Institute of Religion. He served at the Temple Emanu-El from 1937 to 1953 and the Beth Am the Peoples Temple from 1953 to 1981. He was also a civil rights activist and marched…
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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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  • Hettie McClenon (1891–2001) was a longtime resident of Englewood, New Jersey, whose extraordinary life connected the city to more than a century of American history. Born in Florida in 1891 and raised on a family farm, McClenon learned responsibility early, leaving school at the…
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  • Leroy McCloud was a teacher and educator. In 1941 he became the second black teacher in Englewood’s public schools. The Board hired McLoud to teach industrial arts at the newly segregated all-black Lincoln Junior High School. McCloud also became the first black principal in the…
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  • LeRoy McDonald was the manager of the nightclub Harlem-on-Hudson in Englewood Cliffs.
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