Englewood Makes History

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  • Anthony Dominick Benedetto, known professionally as Tony Bennett, was one of the most celebrated vocalists in American music. Born in 1926 in Queens, New York, Bennett served in the U.S. Army during World War II before launching a recording career in 1951. Over the next seven…
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  • Dae Bennett is a music producer. He created Hillside Sound Music Studio. Twenty years later he opened Bennett Studios in 2001. Dae is the son of musician Tony Bennett.
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  • Born in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1913, Helen Burke Travolta was one of the most influential figures in the development of community theater and amateur filmmaking in Bergen County during the 1930s and 1940s. A graduate of St. Cecilia School, she devoted her life to the…
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  • Violet Cherry was a social worker and political activist. At the age of 12, the South African government jailed her briefly for protesting the racist Apartheid laws that discriminated against her due to her Indian heritage. She began social work at 16. She had an arranged…
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  • Maurice Basco was a basketball player for Dwight Morrow High School in the mid-1970s.
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  • William "Bill" Wesley Willoughby was a professional basketball player born in Englewood. He attended Dwight-Morrow High School. He was one of the first high school players to be selected in an NBA draft in 1975. He played for the Atlanta Hawks, Buffalo Braves, Cleveland…
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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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  • Yale Lenny Hansen is an event planner and talent acquisition specialist. He graduated from Norfolk State University with an Associate's in business administration. In 2006 he became the president of LTB Entertainment Inc.
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  • Amable Yalong is a fashion designer. He was self-taught before attending the Fashion Institute of Technology. He is the owner of Y2 Collection, a men's fashion boutique. 

  • Albert Moskin devoted more than three decades to public service, becoming one of the most influential municipal leaders in Englewood's twentieth-century history. A lifelong Englewood resident, Moskin's political career began in 1929 when he was appointed to the city's Board of…
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