Englewood Makes History

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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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  • Leroy Eliot "Slam" Stewart was a jazz musician who was born in Englewood. He was raised in the city’s predominately African American neighborhood known as “Little Texas” or just “Texas.” He attended Dwight Morrow High School where he began playing string bass and the Boston…
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  • Edward Lawrence Pearson Sr. was a Reverend. He founded the Galilee United Methodist Church in Englewood. he was also a minister at the A.M.E. Zion church in Orange, New Jersey, for seventy years. He retired in 1972. He married Estelle. He had three children, Edward Lawrence Jr.,…
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  • Josephine English was the daughter of Whittie English Sr. and Jennie English. She and her siblings were raised in Englewood. Her brother, Whittie English Jr. built a successfuly real estate business in Englewood and the surrounding towns.  Dr. English was a trailblazing…
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  • Gloria E. A. Toote was a lawyer, real estate developer, recording executive, and national public servant whose career bridged law, music, politics, and community development. While she later held influential federal and political roles, one of her most innovative and locally…
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  • Delroy George Lindo is an English and American actor. He lived with his parents who were Jamaican immigrants in London until the family moved to Toronto when he was sixteen. He graduated from the American Conservatory Theater in 1979. His career began in 1976 and Lindo mostly…
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  • Kate Guppy was the first African American women to becoome a police sergeant and lieutenant in Bergen County. She began working with the Englewood Police Department in 1985.
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  • Mary Anderson (c. 1830–1941) was a formerly enslaved woman whose life spanned slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the early twentieth century. At the time of her death, she was believed to be 111 years old—an age attested to by family records and oral…
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  • (c. 1876–1962) Charles B. Hinton was a pioneering civic leader, political organizer, and longtime public employee whose career made him a central figure in Englewood, New Jersey’s Black political history during the early twentieth century. In 1914, he became the first Black…
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  • Winifred Charlotte Goings Farrar, known to all as “Winnie,” was born on August 2, 1932, in Orange, New Jersey, to Gertrude and Charles Goings. After her parents’ deaths, she was raised in Rutherford by her paternal grandparents, Mattie and Charles Brown, who instilled in her a…
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