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Housing Eighties families
The article "Housing Eighties Families" discussed the struggles of families to afford housing. There was an increasing amount of single-parent households, usually led by women. The article also mentioned a similar struggle for seniors.
Numerous organizations such as the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, the Bergen County LWV, the YWCA, and the Women's Rights Information Center were involved in the gathering of statistics and proposals to help families find housing. -
Making it a Woman's World
An article by Kim Hirsh, a writer for the record, discusses Pheobe Seham, the Women's Rights Information Center, and the publication it founded called "New Directions." The article heavily focused on Seham's views on the current atmosphere of the women's rights movement and her involvement in it. -
Women's Information Center Opens
Pheobe Seham writes to the editor of the Record thanking them for the coverage of the opening of the Women's Information Center on January 30th, 1983. Seham does correct the newspaper's article, however, clarifying that the Women's Rights Information Center originated separately and was not an offshoot of the various women's organizations that they associated with. -
Items Gathered to Enthuse the Suffragettes: Notes Telling of the Activity of Aggressive Leaders of the Movement. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw Talks at Englewood
Newspaper discussing Anna Howard Shaw's visit to Englewood in December of 1914. She talked before a group that gathered at Englewood Theatre. This meeting was held by the Women's Political Club of Englewood. -
Jackson, Alexander Louis (1891-1973)
Born March 1, 1891 in Englewood New Jersey, Alexander Jackson grew up on William and Humphrey Street in the heart of Englewood's historic African American community.
Jackson attended Lincoln and Liberty Schools, Englewood High School, Andover and Harvard University.
In 1915, along with his friend Carter G Woodson, he co-founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life. The ASNL established Negro History Week in 1926, which would later become Black History Month. In 1917 Jackson also became one of the founders of the Chicago branch of the National Urban League. From 1921 to 1924 he was the assistant publisher of the Chicago Defender, the largest owned African American newspaper during that era. He became the general manager in 1925. Jackson was the president of the board of trustees of the Provident Hospital and Training School, which was the first African-American-owned and operated hospital in America.
Jackson was married to Charlotte E. Walker in 1914. During this marriage, he had four children, Caroline Booth, Alexander Louis Jackson III, William Edward Jackson, and Winslow Loring Jackson. Charlotte died in 1928 and Jackson married Jana Lenas Booth who passed in 1966. His last wife was Marie Poston whom he married in 1968.