1970
Operation Understanding Newsletter on Stella Wright Rent Strike (Dec 7, 1972)
Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued on December 7, 1972 by Operation Understanding. Operation Understanding was an interracial community organization of suburban and urban residents founded after the 1967 rebellion to address problems in Newark. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries
Institute of Social Relations Press Release on Stella Wright Rent Strike (Feb 6, 1974)
Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued by the Archdiocese of Newark’s Institute of Social Relations on February 6, 1974. In the release, the Institute of Social Relations demanded Mayor Ken Gibson take action to prevent the shutdown of Stella Wright Homes. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries
Institute of Social Relations Press Release on Stella Wright Rent Strike (Dec 20, 1972)
Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued by the Archdiocese of Newark’s Institute of Social Relations on December 20, 1972. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries
United Brothers Poster
This poster for the United Brothers appeared in the April 1968 edition of Amiri Baraka’s newspaper “Black NewArk.” The United Brothers was a Black political organization formed in 1968 to build a Black United Front to gain political power in Newark and eventually elect the city’s first Black mayor in 1970.
