Englewood Makes History

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  • 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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  • Isaac Louis Swift was a pivotal Orthodox rabbi whose leadership helped shape Jewish religious life in Englewood and across Bergen County during the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Liverpool, England, into a distinguished rabbinic family, Swift was immersed from an…
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  • Twenty-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped from his second-floor nursery room around 9:00 pm on March 1, 1932. He was discovered missing around an hour later and a police report was given. A ransom note was found demanding 50,000 dollars. On March 6th, his…
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  • Charles Lindbergh Jr., born on the Next Day Hill Morrow Estate in Englewood NJ, was the son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh Sr. When he was twenty months old he was kidnapped and murdered. His death led to the Lindbergh law which made crossing state lines while…
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  • The Winfree Youth Foundation was created by American Football player Juwann Winfree to provide sports camps and leadership conferences for local youth. Carl Winfree, Juwann Winfree's father, is the co-founder. The headquarters are located in Englewood.
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  • The Brooklyn Boys' Work Council sponsored a conference from February 20th to the 21st in Englewood, New Jersey. It was held in the First Baptist Church of Englewood.
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  • The Brooklyn Boys' Work Council was an organization that worked to help boys direct their future toward "the proper channels." The organization connected organizations that worked with young men such as city churches. Some of the organization's efforts went toward goals, such as…
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  • Arthur L. Jackson wrote to W.E.B. DuBois about the Brooklyn Boys' Work Conference in Englewood in 1926. Jackson requested DuBois give a speech at another meeting to convince African American high school boys to continue their education.
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  • The Doll League is an organization that supports young girls through scholarships and sponsorships. The organization was founded by Ethel Sissle and a group of women in 1958. The project has a chapter in New York and Detroit, Michigan.
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  • "The Oracle" Strike was a protest by the staff of the newspaper "The Oracle" over a freedom of the press argument with the principal of Dwight Morrow High School.
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