NAACP Legal Defense Fund Leaflet on the Medical School Fight (Dec. 20, 1967)-ilovepdf-compressed

Leaflet distributed by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund including newspaper clips and a photograph regarding the protests against the development of the College of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark’s Central Ward. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund joined in the struggle with the Newark Area Planning Association and Committee Against Negro and Puerto Rican Removal to develop an alternate plan for the College of Medicine and Dentistry that would have originally displaced approximately 20,000 Black and Puerto Rican residents of the Central Ward. — Credit: Junius Williams Collection