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Norris, Hatcher Irwin (1914-1945?)
Hatcher Irwin Norris was the first African American teacher hired in Englewood Schools. He taught industrial arts. He was recruited for World War II and served as a First Lieutenant, He was killed in action. -
Davis, Ethel McGhee (1899-1990)
Ethel Davis McGhee was an American social worker and educator. She was the first African American social worker in Englewood, New Jersey when she became the Director of Social Work at the Social Service Federation for Englewood's African American community in 1925. She worked for the Social Service Federation's Memorial House, which was eventually named the Englewood Community House.
In the 1930s, Davis worked at Spelman College, where she acted as Dean of Women and taught sociology. She was the school's first African American administrator.
Davis was heavily involved in numerous organizations such as the Young Woman's Christian Association (YWCA), the National Council of Jewish Women, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the National Urban League, the League of Women Voters, and the National Council of Negro Women.
She traveled back to Englewood in 1954 and remained active in the community. She was involved in numerous organizations in Englewood including the Social Service Federation, the Urban League, the Leonard Johnson Nursery School, the Community Chest, the First Baptist Church of Englewood, and the Adult Advisory Committee.
She married John Warren Davis, President of West Virginia State College on September 2, 1932. She had two daughters, Caroline Florence Davis Gleiter and Dorothy Davis McDaniel. -
Englewood Board of Education
The Englewood Public School District was founded in 1867.
Currently, the Board of Education is made up of nine members, seven members are elected to a term of three years, and oversee five schools. This includes the Preschool D.A. Quarles Early Childhood Center. Two elementary schools, Dr. John Grieco Elementary School and Dr. Leroy McCloud School. The Janis E. Dismus Middle School. Lastly, Dwight Morrow High School.Tags Education -
Jackson, Arthur L. (?-1930)
Arthur L. Jackson was an educator and social worker. He was chairman of the Brooklyn Boys' Work Council and superintendent of the Siloam Presbyterian Church Sunday School. He was also involved with the Utopia Children's House where he organized many social and educational clubs for boys including Boy Scout Troop No. 765. -
Brooklyn Boys' Work Council
The Brooklyn Boys' Work Council was an organization that worked to help boys direct their future toward "the proper channels." The organization connected organizations that worked with young men such as city churches. Some of the organization's efforts went toward goals, such as helping boys gain an education. -
Englewood Hospital School of Nursing
The Englewood Hospital School of Nursing was a training school. The first graduating class was that of 1987/1898. -
Arthur L. Jackson to W.E.B. DuBois, March 1, 1926
Arthur L. Jackson wrote to W.E.B. DuBois about the Brooklyn Oder Boys Conference in Englewood in 1926. Jackson requested DuBois give a speech at another meeting to convince African American high school boys to continue their education. -
Bethune, Mary Jane Mcleod (1875-1955)
Mary Jane Mcleod Bethune was an influential African American educator, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist.
Bethune was born July 10, 1875 in South Carolina. She was the daughter of Samuel and Patsy Mcleod who were previously enslaved.
She married Albertus Bethune in 1899. She also had a son. Her marriage with Albertus ended in 1904. That same year she opened the Daytona Beach Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls. The school evolved into a college, merging with the Cookman Institute forming the Bethune-Cookman College in 1929.
Bethune was heavily involved in activism, including the Women's Suffrage Movement. She was elected the president of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs in 1924 and she was the founding president of the National Council of Negro Women in 1935.
Bethune was friends with Eleanor Roosevelt and was the highest-ranking African-American woman in the United States government when Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration in 1936. A position she remained in until 1944.
In 1940 she became the vice-president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She was also the only black woman at the founding conference of the United Nations in 1945. -
Eagan's Business School
The Eagan's School of Business was a business training school in Hoboken, New Jersey. It was established in 1894. The school was founded by politician John Joseph Eagan.
Due to its location, many students attended from Bergen County. A branch of the school was also founded in Hackensack on 241 Main Street in November of 1903. There was also an Eagan's Secretarial School in Englewood. -
Butler, Margaret (1908?-1976)
Margaret Butler was an economics teacher in Englewood. She taught the fifth grade in Harlem and home economics at Dwight Morrow High School.
Butler became blind in 1945 and was an instructor at the Community House Social Service Federation in Englewood, teaching braille. She also founded Shining Light, an organization to help the blind community.
She was a member of numerous organizations, including the American Foundation of the Blind, the National Council of Negro Women of Bergen County, W.C. Handy Foundation of the Blind, and the New Jersey Commission of the Blind. She was awarded the Lydia Hayes Foundation Achievement Award in 1951. Butler attended St. Cecilia's Roman Catholic Church.