Englewood Makes History

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  • Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and one of the most influential leaders of the modern civil rights movement. His national leadership began in December 1955 during the Montgomery Bus Boycott and continued until his assassination in April 1968. King is best known for…
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  • Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses is a Christian church in Englewood. The first Kingdom Hall opened in 1939 on North Van Brunt Street. By 1948, it had moved to Engle Street and then moved again in 1963 to West Palisade Avenue.
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  • Charles Kipps was a songwriter, author, and screenwriter. Some of his work includes Exiled: A Law & Order Movie, his books The Conor Bard Mysteries, and McCoy-Kipps Production Inc.
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  • Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick (1933 – 1986) was an influential African-American musician, civil-rights activist, and minister from Haynesville, Louisiana. Born into the segregated South, Kirkpatrick earned a biology degree from Grambling College (now Grambling State…

  • Cornelius Porter Kitchel was a politician and lawyer. He graduated from Philips Andover Academy in 1897 and then from Yale Law School in 1901. He acted as attorney-in-chief of the Legal Aid Society in 1905 for about a year. He practiced in New York in 1908. He served on the City…
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  • Eartha Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith; January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an internationally acclaimed singer, actress, and outspoken civil rights activist whose career spanned music, theater, film, and television. She began her professional career in the early 1940s,…
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  • The Knights of Columbus, founded in 1882 by Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, was created as a Catholic mutual aid society at a time when Catholic immigrants faced discrimination and economic insecurity. Combining insurance benefits, fraternity, patriotism,…
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