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Save Our Neighborhood Schools (SONS)
Save Our Neighborhood Schools (SONS) was an organization that opposed racial desegregation efforts in Englewood. According to the organization's leader, George Hatab, SONS believed that it was not the duty of the Englewood Board of Education to promote desegregation of schools… -
Hatab, George A. (1918?-2005)
George A. Hatab was a businessman. He was president of the George Hatab Co. He was also a soldier in the Navy during World War II. Hatab was president of the trustees of St. Anthony's Orthodox Church of Englewood, a member of the Northern Valley Regional Board of Education, and… -
Baer, Byron Mark (1929-2007)
Byron M. Baer (October 18, 1929 – June 24, 2007) was a civil rights activist, community organizer, and longtime Democratic legislator whose public life was deeply rooted in Englewood, New Jersey. Long before he became one of the state’s most influential champions of open… -
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Bergen County Branch
The Bergen County Branch of the Congress of Racial Equality. -
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
The Congress of Racial Equality was founded in 1942. A group of interracial students in Chicago established the group. The organization was heavily involved in the Civil Rights Movement and eventually worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -
Farrakhan, Louis (1933-?)
Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933) is a prominent African American religious leader, orator, and political figure best known for his leadership of the Nation of Islam (NOI). Over the course of his long public life, Farrakhan emerged as one of the most… -
The News in Brief, The Rev. T.W.L. Roundtree.
A short paragraph explains how the Rev. T.W.L. Roundtree (likely I.W.L. Roundtree), the African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor in Englewood, was banned from Dwight Chapel due to a controversy with those who led the church. -
National Urban League (NUL), Bergen County Branch
The Urban League for Bergen County is a volunteer auxiliary of the National Urban League. It began in 1918 under as the League for Social Service Among Colored People. -
James Street Raids (2004)
In 2004 an investigation was opened due to accusations that the homes of Latinx citizens and immigrants were being inspected in a manner that was intrusive and in violation of civil rights. The residents involved were the most Columbian neighborhood on West Charles and James… -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Bergen County Branch
Many notable residents of Englewood have been members of The Bergen County Branch of the NAACP.