Englewood Makes History

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  • Miriam Weidenfeld was a teacher. She acted as director of Temple Emanu-El religious school in the 1980s and 90s.

  • Sherman White was a basketball player. He grew up in Englewood and attended Dwight Morrow. He got into Long Island University on an athletic scholarship in February 1948. There was a point-shaving scandal occurring that White joined by the end of his senior year. Salvatore…
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  • Winton J. White was an educator in Englewood. He began as a mathematics teacher at Englewood High School when he moved to Englewood in 1907. In 1918 he became the superintendent of the Englewood School System. He was also an athletic coach and the Winton J. White stadium was…
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  • Robert Wides was the owner of Wides Liquor. The store was opened by his family in 1932.
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  • William F. Willoughby (c. 1866–1945) was a physician, medical examiner, and political leader whose career placed him at the center of Black civic life and racialized party politics in early-twentieth-century Bergen County, New Jersey. Born in Barbados, British West Indies,…
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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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  • Carl Winfree is the father of American Football Player Juwann Winfree and co-founder of the Team Winfree Foundation.
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  • Juwann Winfree is an American Football wide receiver. He played at the University of Colorado before he was drafted by the Denver Broncos in 2019. He transferred to the Greenbay Packers in 2020. He transferred again to the Indianapolis Colts in May of 2023. Winfree went to…
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  • Barbara E. Wright business owner. She had two restaurants, Black and White Taxi and Wright's Luncheonette. She was known for feeding neighbors in Englewood including impoverished families. She graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in 1947 and worked in the administrative and…
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  • John T. Wright was a trailblazing figure in the civic and political life of Englewood, New Jersey, during the mid-twentieth century. He is best remembered as the first Black councilman in Englewood—and in all of Bergen County—marking a major milestone in the region’s history and…
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