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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 which the organization claimed was due to housing patterns and not racial discrimination. The organization stated that the board should focus on administering education not engineering social change. -
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 a leader of Save Our Neighborhood Schools (SONS). -
Baer, Byron Mark (1929-2007)
Byron Mark Baer was a politician who served in the New Jersey Senate and the New Jersey General Assembly. He served eleven terms from 1972-1994. In the 1960s he was a Freedom Rider and demonstrated in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. He was also a leader of the Congress of Racial Inequality. He was most notably involved with the Sunshine Law and establishing the New Jersey Office of the Child Advocate. He married Anne Stewart but they later separated. In 1983 he married Linda Rupert Pollitt. He had two children, David and Laura Baer Levine. -
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 is a religious leader. He is the head of the Nation of Islam (NOI) a Sunni Islamic and black nationalist group. He was a protege of Malcolm X before Malcolm X left the NOI. Farrakhan publically condemned Malcolm X afterward. Farrakhan led a group to break away from the NOI after the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975, the leader of the NOI at the time, was succeeded by his son Wallace Deen Muhammad. He is known to have communicated with Muammar Gaddafi since the 1980s and to have given him a loan. Farrakhan is at the center of numerous controversies. He has made statements that many organizations claim are anti-Semitic and racist.
He married Khadijah Farrakhan (born Betsy Ross) in 1953. He had nine children, Mustapha, Joshua Nasir, Abnar, Louis Jr., Donna, Hanna, Maria, Fatimah, and Khallada. -
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 Street. -
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.