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Bessie Smith Community Center from The Crusader (Jan 1968)
Photograph from the newspaper of the United Community Corporation, The Crusader, showing the location of the newly established Bessie Smith Community Center at 160 Hawthorne Ave. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Carol Glassman and Bessie Smith at Area Board Meeting (1965) copy
Newark Community Union Project (NCUP) members Carol Glassman (left) and Bessie Smith (right) preside over a meeting of the United Community Corporation’s Area Board #3 in 1965. –Credit: Robert Machover
Bessie Smith Telegram to Sargent Shriver (Oct. 28,1965)
Telegram from Bessie Smith, President of the People’s Action Group (Area Board #3) of the United Community Corporation (UCC), to Sargent Shriver, Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity on October 28, 1965. Mrs. Smith sent the telegram to request Shriver’s assistance in response to the City Council Committee’s investigation of the UCC. Mrs. Smith and many others felt that the investigation was an attempt to bring the antipoverty agency under the control of the Mayor and the City Council. — Credit: Junius Williams Papers
The War on Poverty in Newark, NJ (April, 1965)-ilovepdf-compressed
A printed collection of statements presented by members of the Newark Community Union Project (NCUP) to Adam Clayton Powell’s Congressional Committee investigating the War on Poverty in April, 1965. In their statements, these Newark residents describe a lack of community representation and involvement in the United Community Corporation (UCC) in Newark. As federal funding arrived in Newark, city officials and politicians jockeyed for control of the money for their own purposes, while the city’s poor communities sought access to the antipoverty programs. Mrs. Louise Patterson explains that “the Area Boards are being taken over by Ward Leaders and speeches by politicians and candidates for political office.” — Credit: Newark Public Library
People’s Action Group Office (UCC Area Board 3)
The office of the People’s Action Group at 471 Clinton Avenue in Newark. The People’s Action Group was the name of Area Board #3 of the United Community Corporation (UCC). — Credit: Newark Public Library
