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Stewart, Leroy Eliot "Slam" (1914-1987)
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 Conservatory. By the late 1930s, he formed a popular Jazz act called “Slim and Slam.” The group had a big hit in 1938 with “Flat Foot Floogie.” Stewart went on to play with the Jazz greats including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, and many more. Stewart stayed rooted in his Englewood community and performed concerts for his friends and neighbors at the Social Services Federation’s Memorial House. -
Pearson, Edward Lawrence, Sr. (1888-1982)
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., Etheal, and Neva. -
English, Josephine (1920-2011)
Josephine English was a medical doctor. She moved to Englewood in 1939. She attended Hunter College and gained a master's in psychology from New York University. She gained a medical degree from the Meharry Medical College School of Medicine graduating in 1949. She became New York State's first licensed black female gynecologist. She worked at Harlem Hospital before opening a women's clinic in the Bronx in 1958. She founded the Adelphi Medical Center in Brooklyn in 1979. -
Toote, Gloria (1931-2017)
Gloria Toote was a lawyer and real estate developer. She graduated from Howard University in 1952 with a B.A. and in 1954 a J.D. She received a master's from Columbia University in 1956. From 1966 to 1970 she owned Toote Town Records in Englewood. She was also involved in politics. She advised Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. From 1971 to 1973 she acted as the Assistant Director of ACTION. From 1973 to 1975 she acted as Assistant Secretary for Equal Opportunity in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. During Ronald Reagan's administration, she acted as the vice chairman of the United States Office of Private Sector Initiatives. She was a founding member of the National Black United Fund. In the 1980s she became president of the TREA Estates and Enterprises. From 1984 to 1992 she was vice chair of the National Political Congress of Black Women. -
Lindo, Delroy (1952-?)
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 focused on theater during the 1980s. He started taking movie roles in the 1990s. He has starred in Malcolm X as Spike Lee, The Chicago Code, Believe, and Blood & Oil. He received a bachelor of arts from San Francisco State University in 2004 and a master's in fine arts in 2014 from New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study. He married Neshormeh in 1990. He had a son, Damiri. He has done several interviews on his experiences as a black actor. Lindo lived in Englewood with his family for a time. -
Guppy, Kate (?-?)
Kate Guppy was the first African American female police sergeant and lieutenant in Bergen County. She began working with the Englewood Police Department in 1985. -
Hinton, Charles Burture (1877-1962)
Charles B. Hinton was a real estate broker involved in politics. He was one of the founders of the Bergen Branch of the National Urban League. He was also elected as a county committee member for the Fourth Ward. He married Elizabeth Sears. He had two children, Theodore and Carmen E. Pawley. -
Farrar, Winifred Charlotte Goings (1932-2017)
Winifred Charlotte Farrar was a civil rights activist in Teaneck, New Jersey. She was a member of the Bergen County CORE and the Bergen County Chapter of the Rainbow Coalition. She married Alfred Farrar. -
Lacey, Shirley (1924-2012)
Shirley Lacy was a politician and Englewood councilwoman. She graduated from New York University. Lacy was active in the Civil Rights Movement. She acted as the director of the state American Civil Liberties Union and the leadership training for the Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality Inc. (SEDFRE). Lacy was elected to the Englewood Council in 1977. She was also a Bergen County Overall Economic Development program committee member.
She married Reginald Lewis Lacy. She had two daughters, Deirdre Gaskin and Celeste Lacy Davis. -
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Bergen County Branch
The Bergen County Branch of the Congress of Racial Equality.