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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. -
Kunstler, William Moses (1919-1995)
William Moses Kunstler was an attorney and civil rights activist. Kunstler graduated from Yale before serving in World War II in the Philippines. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1948. He taught at Pace College's Business School and New York Law School in the 1950s. Kunstler helped the Civil Rights Movement members with legal cases and was acquainted with Martin Luther King Jr. He was director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1964 to 1972. He co-founded the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Kunstler is well-known for defending members of the Black Panther Party, the Attica Prison rioters, Yusef Salaam of the Central Park Five cases, El Sayyid Nosair who was charged with the assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane, and the Chicago Seven cases. Kunstler represented Englewood parents in their legal efforts to desegregate Englewood schools.
He married Lotte Rosenberger in 1943. After they divorced in 1976 he married Margaret L. Ratner. He had four daughters, Karin Goldman, Jane Drazek, Sarah, and Emily. -
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. -
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. -
Kitt, Eartha Mae (1927-2008)
Eartha Mae Kitt was a singer and actress. She began her career in 1942 appearing on Broadway. She was most well-known for her 1953 songs "C'est si bon" and "Santa Baby." As for her acting, she is most well-known for her part as Catwoman in the 1967 Batman television series.
Kitt was also a civil rights activist and international peace activist. Kitt worked with Englewood City Councilwoman Shirley Lacey in the mid-1960s to help raise money for the Southern Civil Rights Movement. In 1965 she played a benefit gala in Paramus at the Neptune Inn with Alan Alda, Clyde McPhatter, and the Isley Brothers.
Kitt married John William McDonald in 1960 but separated in 1964. Kitt had a daughter, Kitt. -
Roundtree, Irwin William Langston "Dominie" (1855?-1948)
Irwin William Langston "Dominie" Roundtree was a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was born into slavery sometime between 1855 and 1865. Princeton University alumni files place his birth on September 15, 1855.
He was one of Princeton's earliest African American graduates, earning a Master of Arts in 1895. He served as pastor of the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Trenton for twenty-five years. He also was heavily involved in politics in New Jersey. He ran for state government positions, specifically the State Board of Arbitration. He ran for Delegate-At-Large for the Republican Convention in 1936.
He might have been in Englewood and involved with the AME church in the town in 1890 and 1891.
He married Fannie Colson on June 21, 1888. -
Olatunji, Babatunde (1927-2003)
Babatunde Olatunji was a Nigerian Drummer. His first album was "Drums of Passion" released in 1959. He founded the Center for African Culture in Harlem in the late 1960s. He also worked with other famous musicians and groups, such as the Grateful Dead. He visited Englewood and taught African music and dances to students there. Olatunji was also a Civil Rights Activist.
His wife's name was Amy. He had four children. -
Tibbs, Vincente K. (1914-1973)
Vincente K. Tibbs was a social worker, Englewood Movement leader, and City Council president from the 4th ward. He a Democrat and was elected in 1960. He worked to help race relations between white and black residents.
Tibbs lived in Harlem and graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School. He graduated from Shaw University with a degree in social science in 1939. He gained a master's degree from the Columbia School of Social Work in 1949.
Tibbs also served in the Navy in World War II.
Tibbs was involved with the Bureau of Community Education of the New York City Board of Education, Camp Kilmer Hob Corps., NYU's School of Education, the New Jersey Regional Durg Abuse Agency, the Social Service Federation, and the Englewood Community Center. He was a member of the Congress of Racial Equity, the NAACP, the Urban League, and the Henry Douglas Post 58.
He married Primrose Barnwell. He had a daughter, Dana Macon. -
King, Martin Luther Jr. (1929-1968)
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and a prominent leader of the civil rights movement. King's leadership in the movement began in December of 1955 and lasted until he was assassinated in April 1968. King is famous for his nonviolent resistance and protests. Some of his notable protests were the March on Washington in 1963 and the Selma to Mongomery Marches. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" and "I Have A Dream" are the two well-known articles and speeches from King. He was the youngest man awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
He married Coretta Scott in 1953. He had four children, Yolanda, Martin III, Dexter, and Bernice.