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Isaac G. McNatt, the first African-American to serve on the Teaneck Council and later the township's first African-American municipal judge, died Monday.
He was 92 and lived in Madison, N.C.
Mr. McNatt, a son of North Carolina sharecroppers, was appointed to a council vacancy in June 1966. At the time, he was president of the Bergen County Coordinating Committee on Civil Rights and chairman of Teaneck's Fair Housing Committee.
Three years earlier, he helped organize a Teaneck contingent that attended the March on Washington, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Mr. McNatt, an attorney specializing in civil rights matters, won election to a full council term in November 1966. He was reelected in 1970 and served as deputy mayor.
The man...