Englewood Makes History

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  • Hainey was a member of Bergen County C.O.R.E. She was a dedicated civil rights activist who traveled South to Baltimore in 1961 to protest racial discrimination in restaurants. was arrested in 1962 as part of the sit-in at Englewood City Hall to protest racial segregation in the…
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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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  • Eleanor Harvey was an Englewood resident and a founder of the Englewood Historical Society. She was a teacher for 43 years and taught social studies at Diwght Morrow High School. Some of her projects included the placement of the cast-iron clock in front of City Hall, the…
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  • George A. Hatab was a businessman. He was president of the George Hatab Co. He was also a soldier in the Navy during World War II. Hatab was president of the trustees of St. Anthony's Orthodox Church of Englewood, a member of the Northern Valley Regional Board of Education, and…
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  • Bruno Richard Hauptmann was a German immigrant. Before he came to the United States he was drafted into the German Army during World War I. He was sent to France and fought in the battle of Saint-Mihiel. He worked as a carpenter. He was arrested numerous times for burglary in…
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  • Trude Heller was a music producer and nightclub owner. She created Trude Heller's, a club in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. She opened another club in Palm Beach, Flordia. She also co-founded Tru-Glo-Town Records.
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  • Harry Henderson Jr. was a music producer and computer programmer. He was born in Englewood and graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in 1963. He attended William Paterson College and enlisted in the Army. He managed numerous groups including Main Attraction, Chocolate Syrup,…
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  • Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg arrived at Temple Emanu-El of Englewood in the mid-1950s during a moment of institutional expansion and social change. Coming from a previous pulpit in Nashville, Tennessee, he assumed leadership just as the congregation was preparing for the High Holy…
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  • Albert George Hibbler was a singer. He sang pop music, R&B, and jazz. Hibbler was born blind. He began his career with Dub Jenkins and his Playmates. He later worked with Jay McHann and then Duke Ellington's orchestra. He won the Esquire New Star Award as best male singer in…
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  • (c. 1876–1962) Charles B. Hinton was a pioneering civic leader, political organizer, and longtime public employee whose career made him a central figure in Englewood, New Jersey’s Black political history during the early twentieth century. In 1914, he became the first Black…
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