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CORE Panel Hits Addonizio on Review Board Decision (Oct 12, 1965)

Clipping from an unmarked newspaper covering a meeting of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) on October 11, 1965. The meeting, attended by roughly 100 people, was held to address Mayor Addonizio’s responses to community demands for a police review board in Newark. Those who attended the meeting, including Robert Curvin, Fred Means, and Carl Katidus, criticized the shortcomings of Addonizio’s proposals for police reform. Newark Human Rights Commission director James Threatt was “booed repeatedly” when he spoke in support of Addonizio’s plans. — Credit: Newark Public Library

NAACP probing beating report (NJ Afro-American July 18,1964)

Article from the New Jersey Afro-American on July 18, 1964 covering an NAACP probe of recent allegations of police brutality, specifically the death of Benjamin Bryant while in police custody. Other cases of recent police misconduct directed at Black residents of Newark are also decribed in brief. In response to these allegations of brutality, the reporter claims that “unless some immediate steps are taken to bring Newark’s ‘trigger and club happy’ police under control it is feared that the colored community will be the scene of uncontrolled violence as colored citizens will seek some means of protecting themselves from abuse.” — Credit: New Jersey Afro-American

Pickets Stride at Sunrise (NJ Afro-American, May 30, 1964) copy

Article from the New Jersey Afro-American covering demonstrations at the construction site of the Rutgers University Law Building in 1964. Various civil rights organizations, including the NAACP, CORE, Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), and Puerto Rican populations protested the $2.5 million project that employed no Black or Puerto Rican workers. — Credit: New Jersey Afro-American

Interracial Action- The Story of Newarl’s BICC, by Douglas Eldridge

Note from the pamphlet: “This series of articles on the efforts of the Newark Business and Industrial Coordinating Committee to assist Negroes and Puerto Ricans in gaining employment was published by The Newark News in its issues of March 22-26, 1964. These pamphlets have been prepared by The News for distribution by the committee.” The BICC was established in the wake of the contentious protests at the Barringer High School construction sites in July 1963. — Credit: Doug Eldridge, The Newark News