Mayor Ken Gibson Drives a Bulldozer
Mayor Gibson poses for a photo on a bulldozer with construction workers. –Credit: Newark Public Library
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Agreements Reached Between Community and Government Negotiators Regarding UMDNJ and Related Matters (As Amended)- April 30, 1968-ilovepdf-compressed
The infamous “Medical School Agreement” reached between representatives of Newark’s Black and Puerto Rican communities and government officials regarding the proposed College of Medicine and Dentistry in the city’s Central Ward. The Newark Area Planning Association (NAPA) and the Committee Against Negro and Puerto Rican Removal represented the city’s poor Black and Puerto Rican communities and led the charge 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
An Argument for an Alternate Plan (Aug. 15,1967)-ilovepdf-compressed
A statement prepared by the Newark Area Planning Association (NAPA) and law volunteers from Vista (Volunteers in Service to America) that put forth a comprehensive argument for an alternate plan for the development of the College of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark’s Central Ward. NAPA led the charge 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
Platform of the Black and Puerto Rican Convention (Including Additions)-ilovepdf-compressed
Official platform of the Black and Puerto Rican Convention, ratified on November 15, 1969, the second day of the Convention. The platform, developed through the Convention’s workshops, put forth a progressive political agenda for Newark’s 1970 Mayoral and City Council elections that all candidates nominated at the Convention agreed to be bound by.
Addonizio is given ultimatum (June 15, 1963)
— Credit: Newark Public Library
Mayor to meet union heads on charges of hiring bias (NJ AfroAmerican, June 11,1963)
Clipping from an unmarked newspaper, covering the plans of the Newark Coordinating Council (NCC) to picket city construction sites if city officials did not take action against employment discrimination of Black and Puerto Ricans in the building and construction trades. The article includes a list of demands issued to Mayor Addonizio by the NCC, which was comprised of various civil rights organizations in the city. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Flyer- Wrap Up Jim Crow Rally (NCC, NAACP Oct 15, 1965)
Flyer distributed by the Newark Coordinating Council (NCC) and the NAACP announcing a rally to organize around employment discrimination in the building and construction trades in Newark. Despite momentous protests at the Barringer High School construction site two years earlier, Newark’s Black and Puerto Rican communities still struggled to gain equal employment opportunities in the building and construction industries. — Credit: Newark Public Library
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
Newark Police Memo on CORE Demonstrations at Barringer (July 29, 1963)
Police report submitted on July 29, 1963 regarding demonstrations at the Barringer High School construction site to protest hiring discrimination in the building and construction trades in Newark against Blacks and Puerto Ricans. — Credit: NJ State Archives
Flyer- End Discrimination Against Negroes and Puerto Ricans
Flyer distributed by the Newark Coordinating Council (NCC) to encourage community support of protests at the Barringer High School construction site. The NCC, which was comprised of various civil rights organizations in the city, organized demonstrations at the site to protest hiring discrimination in the building and construction trades in Newark against Blacks and Puerto Ricans. — Credit: Newark Public Library
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