Englewood Makes History

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  • Born Faith Ringgold is a painter and sculptor. She enrolled in City College of New York for art education and received her degree in 1955. She earned a master's in 1959. She began teaching in New York public schools and eventually at the University of California San Diego. Her…
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  • The First Direct-Dial Transcontinental CallOn October 1, 1927, employees gathered on the roof of the Engle Street telephone building in Englewood to raise the new flag of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, marking the formal transfer of local service from New York Telephone…
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  • Violet Cherry was a social worker and political activist. At the age of 12, the South African government jailed her briefly for protesting the racist Apartheid laws that discriminated against her due to her Indian heritage. She began social work at 16. She had an arranged…
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  • Maurice Basco was a basketball player for Dwight Morrow High School in the mid-1970s.
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  • William "Bill" Wesley Willoughby was a professional basketball player born in Englewood. He attended Dwight-Morrow High School. He was one of the first high school players to be selected in an NBA draft in 1975. He played for the Atlanta Hawks, Buffalo Braves, Cleveland…
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  • Alexander Louis Jackson (1891–1971) Scholar, Institution Builder, and Civil Rights Strategist Alexander Louis Jackson was born on March 1, 1891, in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up on William and Humphrey Streets in the heart of the city’s historic African American Fourth Ward…
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  • Yale Lenny Hansen is an event planner and talent acquisition specialist. He graduated from Norfolk State University with an Associate's in business administration. In 2006 he became the president of LTB Entertainment Inc.
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  • Amable Yalong is a fashion designer. He was self-taught before attending the Fashion Institute of Technology. He is the owner of Y2 Collection, a men's fashion boutique. 

  • Albert Moskin devoted more than three decades to public service, becoming one of the most influential municipal leaders in Englewood's twentieth-century history. A lifelong Englewood resident, Moskin's political career began in 1929 when he was appointed to the city's Board of…
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  • Arnold Brown was born on April 12, 1932, in Englewood, Brown's family had deep roots in New Jersey and Englewood. Arnold’s great-great-grandfather, John Brown, was born into the Ramapough Munsee Lenape Nation. His five-time great-grandparents James and Catherine Oliver settled…
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