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Tibbs, Vincente K. (1914-1973)
Vincente K. Tibbs was a social worker, Englewood Movement leader, and City Council president from the 4th ward. He a Democrat and was elected in 1960. He worked to help race relations between white and black residents. Tibbs lived in Harlem and graduated from DeWitt Clinton High… -
National Urban League (NUL)
The National Urban League is a civil rights organization that advocates for African American rights, fighting against racial discrimination. The Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negros was founded in 1910 by Ruth Standish Baldwin and Dr. George Edmund Hayes and it merged with… -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an interracial human rights organization. The mission of the organization was to abolish segregation and discrimination. It was founded in 1909 by a group of people including W.E.B. DuBois, Ida Bell,… -
Major, Russell C. (1932-1997)
Russell Cameron Major (1932–1997) was a central figure in Englewood, New Jersey’s civil rights history and one of the city’s most persistent advocates for school integration and civic participation. Raised in Englewood during a period of entrenched residential and educational… -
DuBois, William Edward Burghardt (1868-1963)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was one of the most influential African American scholars, writers, historians, sociologists, and civil rights activists of the twentieth century, and a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).… -
William Edward Burghardt "W.E.B." DuBois to Alexander Jackson, April 18, 1927
William Edward Burghardt "W.E.B." DuBois wrote to Alexander Jackson requesting his assessment of the spring 1927 Chicago mayoral race between Republican William Emmett Dever and Democrat William Hale Thompson. DuBois is particularly interested in attitudes among African… -
Mary McCleod Bethune Controversy (1952)
In the spring of 1952, Mary McLeod Bethune, one of the most respected educators and public servants in the United States, became the center of a national civil-liberties controversy in Englewood, New Jersey. The episode unfolded at the height of Cold War anti-communist anxiety… -
Englewood Movement
Early Resistance and the Frist School Crisis (1878-1884)The Englewood Movement of the 1960s did not arise suddenly in response to Brown v. Board of Education. Rather, it represented the culmination of nearly a century of resistance by Black parents who repeatedly confronted… -
White, Sherman (1928-2011)
Sherman White was a basketball player. He grew up in Englewood and attended Dwight Morrow. He got into Long Island University on an athletic scholarship in February 1948. There was a point-shaving scandal occurring that White joined by the end of his senior year. Salvatore… -
4th Ward "Uprising" "Disturbance" "Riots" (1967)
On July 21, 1967, in Englewood's fourth ward, residents rioted. Residents claimed that the other people of Englewood unfairly treated them and that the police were invasive. The unrest lasted for five days.