Organizations & Institutions (149 total)

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

• 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 Judeans

• Englewood Branch of the American League Against War and Fascism

• Englewood Community Club

• 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…
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  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,…

• Englewood Colored Chauffeurs Association