Englewood Makes History

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  • Hannah Jackson, a formerly enslaved person, died in Englewood in 1889. Twenty years later her grandson came to Englewood from the South to recover property he claimed Jackson had left him. 
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  • Charles Jackson was Englewood's first black policeman. He began working with the department in the 1920s. He married civic leader Alva Jackson. He had one daughter, Ida Dudley. Jackson died of Typhoid fever during the 1936 epidemic. The city replaced Jackson with another black…
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  • Bernard Jackson is best known as the lead vocalist and bassist for the R&B trio Surface, a group that rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s. With his smooth, emotive voice at the forefront, Surface scored multiple chart-topping hits, including the No. 1 singles…

  • Dr. Barbara Loomis Jackson’s life reflected not only her own intellectual achievements but also the convergence of two prominent African American professional families whose influence extended across Detroit, Chicago, Englewood, and national educational circles. Barbara was born…

  • Alva Jackson was a widely respected civic leader and community organizer in Englewood, best known for her decades of service to the city’s Fourth Ward and her tireless advocacy for working-class families, children, and seniors. Active during the mid-20th century, Jackson played…
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  • Alexander Louis Jackson (1891–1971) Scholar, Institution Builder, and Civil Rights Strategist Alexander Louis Jackson was born on March 1, 1891, in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up on William and Humphrey Streets in the heart of the city’s historic African American Fourth Ward…
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  • Newspaper discussing Anna Howard Shaw's visit to Englewood in December of 1914. She talked before a group that gathered at Englewood Theatre. This meeting was held by the Women's Political Club of Englewood.
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  • Vernon Isley was a singer and the youngest member of the original Isley Brothers. While riding his bicycle he was struck and killed by a car in Cincinnati in 1955.
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  • Sallye Bernice Bell Isley was the matriarchal force behind one of the most influential family groups in American music history and a quiet but enduring presence in the cultural life of Englewood, where music, faith, and family converged in ways that would ripple far beyond…

  • Rudolph "Rudy" Bernard Isley was an American singer and songwriter. He was also a Christian minister. He grew up in Englewood and lived in Teaneck for a time. He created a music group with his two brothers, Ronald and O'Kelly Jr. called "The Isely Brothers." He married Elaine…
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