Englewood Makes History

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  • Samuel Brinkerhoff was the grandson of Hannah Jackson. 
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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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  • William E. Brown Jr. was a Lieutenant General of the Allied Air Forces Southern Europe and the deputy commander in chief of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe for the Southern Area. He attended Dwight Morrow High School and was a member of the Bethany Presbyterian Church. Brown…
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  • The following is a description of Charles H. Bullock written by his granddaughter Cheryl Ann. "My grandfather Charles H. Bullock Jr. was born in 1903 in Charlottesville Virginia. He was the second to oldest of six children. His father Charles Sr. was Secretary of the Carlton…
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  • Margaret Butler was an economics teacher in Englewood. She taught the fifth grade in Harlem and home economics at Dwight Morrow High School. Butler became blind in 1945 and was an instructor at the Community House Social Service Federation in Englewood, teaching braille. She…
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  • By the end of the 1960s, John Carter had emerged as one of Englewood’s most visible tenant advocates, first through direct action and later through sustained organizational leadership. His role in the Forest Park Gardens rent strike marked the beginning—not the culmination—of a…

  • Wilt Chamberlain was already a national basketball phenomenon by the spring of 1960. After rising to prominence at Overbrook High School, starring at the University of Kansas, spending a season with the Harlem Globetrotters, and entering the NBA with the Philadelphia Warriors in…
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  • Shawn Cheatham, or "DJ Shawn" is a hip-hop artist. He joined Rock N' Gee. He grew up in Teaneck.
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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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