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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  • William O’Brien Boldt was a longtime Englewood resident, Democratic activist, and professor whose quiet but persistent style of organizing helped shape local and national progressive movements over several decades. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he earned his Ph.D. in…
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  • Gloria L. Amos (1920–2012) was an Englewood-based writer, educator, and longtime public school staff member whose late-in-life literary work drew deeply on family, memory, and place. Born in the early twentieth century, Gloria Amos spent much of her adult life balancing work,…
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  • The BergenPAC Performing Arts School is a dance, acting, visual arts, and music school run by the Bergen Performing Arts Center. Programs serve students from the age of three months to adults. The school is located down the street from the theater at 1 Depot Square where Bennett…
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  • Joseph Daley (August 6, 1949 – August 3, 2025) was a pioneering low-brass artist whose work transformed how the tuba and euphonium could function within modern jazz. A composer, bandleader, and educator, Daley combined deep musical inquiry with spiritual reflection and a…
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  • Constance Chilton was an educator. She graduated from Smith College in 1926. She went to school with Elisabeth Reeve Morrow Morgan. Together they founded the Little School, now named the Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood. She graduated from Columbia University Teacher's…
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  • Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg arrived at Temple Emanu-El of Englewood in the mid-1950s during a moment of institutional expansion and social change. Coming from a previous pulpit in Nashville, Tennessee, he assumed leadership just as the congregation was preparing for the High Holy…
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  • A newspaper interview of Judge and politician Charles Blakeslee Law. Law describes how in the Amherst Class of 1895 when asked the class voted Dwight Whitney Morrow as the future greatest achiever of the class. However, Morrow voted for Calvin Coolidge.
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  • A newspaper quotes a letter from John Calvin Coolidge Jr. to Frederick Scouller Allis and the Board of Trustees of Amherst College including Dwight Whitney Morrow. Coolidge wrote declining the invitation to attend the inauguration of Amherst College's new President, George…
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  • Teaneck High School is a public school. In 1922 the land was purchased to build the high school and students from grades seven through tenth began attending in 1929. The building was constructed in the Collegiate Gothic style, leading to students giving the school the nickname…
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