(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…
Elizabeth Sears Hinton (c. 1878–1986)
Elizabeth Sears Hinton was a lifelong Englewood resident whose life bridged the era of slavery and the modern civil-rights century. She died in 1986 at the age of 104, having spent nearly three decades as one of the city’s elder witnesses…
Nancy Lee Sears was a formerly enslaved woman whose life spanned from the antebellum South into the twentieth century, bearing witness to slavery, emancipation, and the long, uneven struggle for freedom in the United States. She died in 1938 at the age of 102 while living in…
