Englewood Makes History

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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…

  • The Catholic Daughters of America was founded in 1903 by John E. Carberry and the Knights of Columbus as a charitable sorority for catholic women.
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  • The Catholic Daughters of America was a Charitable sorority for catholic women. The Court Madonna No. 258 Branch in Englewood was founded in 1915.
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  • Dikran Chakmakian (c. 1894–1964) was an Englewood, New Jersey–based artist and businessman known locally for his portrait work. Born in Dalmatia, he immigrated to the United States in 1923 and later settled in Englewood, where he lived at 27 North Dean Street. By profession he…

  • 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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  • The Chansoneers were the Dwight Morrow High School Choral Group, which began in 1940 at Bound Brook High School. It was founded by Thaddeus J. Kropczynski. He began a Chansoneers group when he moved to Englewood in 1946.
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  • Twenty-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped from his second-floor nursery room around 9:00 pm on March 1, 1932. He was discovered missing around an hour later and a police report was given. A ransom note was found demanding 50,000 dollars. On March 6th, his…
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  • Dr. Willoughby won the Republican primary nomination. Charles Greenberg won the Democratic primary. The white Republican vote went for Greenberg in the general election. Black 4th ward residents accused the city's Republican Party of not supporting Willoughby in the general,.
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