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• Daughters of Isis Englewood

• Order of the Eastern Start, Queen of Sheba Chapter 4

• General Motors

  By 1970, at the height of America’s postwar automobile economy, one of Englewood’s largest and most imposing industrial structures stood along Route 4 at South Van Brunt Street — a 263,000-square-foot General Motors distribution center that physically and economically tied the…

• Chilton, Doris

  DMHS Gym teacher

• Perry, Helen K.

  Helen Kearney Perry (1924–2012) Helen Kearney Perry was born on October 6, 1924, in Liberia, North Carolina, to Richard G. Kearney and Fannie Green Kearney. As the eldest of seven children, she grew up in a family that valued education, faith, and service. She completed her…

• Minstrelsy

  Blackface and Civic Belonging: Minstrelsy in Englewood, 1904–1958 For more than half a century, minstrel shows were among the most familiar and widely attended forms of public entertainment in Englewood. They were staged in church basements, school auditoriums, lyceums,…

• Englewood Hebrew School

• Englewood Judeans

• Englewood Branch of the American League Against War and Fascism

• Smith, Marvin "Bugalu"

  Marvin “Bugalu” Smith (born 1948) is an American jazz percussionist recognized for his dynamic style and long association with Sun Ra and the Sun Ra Arkestra. Across decades of performance, teaching, and international touring, Smith has built a reputation as both a powerful…