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Jones, Patrick Stansfield
Jones, Patrick Stanfield is an American guitarist, vocalist, composer, arranger, and producer whose music bridges blues, rock, jazz, and folk traditions. Known for his expressive guitar work and thoughtful songwriting, Jones combines roots-based authenticity with a contemporary… -
Smith, Earl Clarence"Buster"
Earl Clarence “Buster” Smith was a jazz drummer whose steady, expressive playing connected him to both mainstream and avant-garde currents in postwar American music. Born on March 20, 1932, in Englewood, New Jersey, Smith spent much of his life rooted in the same community where… -
Englewood Domestic Employees Association
The story of the Englewood Domestic Employees Association (EDEA) in 1933–1934 cannot be separated from the political and racial tensions shaping Englewood at the height of the Depression. What began as a dispute over public health regulation quickly became entangled with ward… -
The Englewood Colored Working Women's Club
By the early 1930s, Black women in Englewood—many of them employed as domestics, laundresses, cooks, and child-care workers—were organizing to protect themselves economically and to claim space in the civic life of the city. Out of that need emerged the Englewood Colored Working… -
Negro Health Committee of Bergen County
By the mid-1930s, Bergen County officials were confronting a troubling reality: tuberculosis and other communicable diseases were disproportionately affecting Black residents, particularly in overcrowded and substandard housing. Out of this concern emerged the Negro Health… -
Negro Health Week
Each spring in the interwar decades, Englewood observed what local newspapers called “Negro Health Week.” On the surface, it was a preventive health campaign: clinics at Memorial House, school assemblies at Lincoln School, sermons in Black churches, lectures on hygiene,…