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Lacey, Shirley (1924-2012)
Shirley M. Lacy was a civil rights strategist, Black feminist organizer, and public official whose work spanned grassroots protest, policy reform, and electoral politics in New Jersey for more than four decades. Based in Englewood, she became a central figure in northern… -
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Bergen County Branch
The Bergen County Branch of the Congress of Racial Equality. -
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
The Congress of Racial Equality was founded in 1942. A group of interracial students in Chicago established the group. The organization was heavily involved in the Civil Rights Movement and eventually worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -
Sears, Nancy Lee (1836-1938)
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… -
Razafinkarefo, Andriamanantena Paul (1895-1973)
Razaf, Andy (1895–1973), born Andrea Razafkeriefo, was one of the most prolific and influential lyricists in American music history. Over the course of his career, he wrote the words to hundreds—by many contemporary counts, thousands—of songs, shaping the emotional vocabulary of… -
McDonald, LeRoy (?-?)
LeRoy McDonald was the manager of the nightclub Harlem-on-Hudson in Englewood Cliffs. -
Mays, Sonny (?-?)
Sonny Mays was a light-heavyweight boxer in the 1930s from Englewood's "Little Texas," neighborhood. He was also a football player with the Palisades Park Eskimos. Mays was also the doorman for the popular black-owned Harlem-on-the-Hudson nightclub in Englewood Cliffs. -
National Urban League (NUL), Bergen County Branch
The Urban League for Bergen County is a volunteer auxiliary of the National Urban League. It began in 1918 under as the League for Social Service Among Colored People. -
Roundtree, Irwin William Langston "Dominie" (1855?-1948)
Irwin William Langston “Dominie” Roundtree was born into slavery in Georgia sometime in the mid-1850s, though the precise year of his birth remains uncertain. Census records, seminary files, and Roundtree’s own recollections offer conflicting dates, ranging from 1855 to 1860.… -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Bergen County Branch
Many notable residents of Englewood have been members of The Bergen County Branch of the NAACP.