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Frank Megaro Campaign Flyer on Kawaida Towers (1974)
Campaign flyer for North Ward City Council candidate Frank Megaro in 1974, stating his positions on the proposed Kawaida Towers housing project in the North Ward. Kawaida Towers, a communal public housing project conceived by Amiri Baraka, was met with fierce opposition in the predominantly white North Ward where it was supposed to be constructed. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Campaign Flyer Against Kawaida Towers and Marie Villani (1978)
Campaign flyer from the 1978 Newark City Council election, opposing the re-election of Marie Villani, because she voted in favor of the Kawaida Towers housing project in the North Ward. Kawaida Towers, a communal public housing project conceived by Amiri Baraka, was met with fierce opposition in the predominantly white North Ward where it was supposed to be constructed. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Anthony Carrino Campaign Flyer on Kawaida Towers (1974)
Campaign flyer for North Ward City Council candidate Anthony Carrino in 1974, stating his positions on the proposed Kawaida Towers housing project in the North Ward. Kawaida Towers, a communal public housing project conceived by Amiri Baraka, was met with fierce opposition in the predominantly white North Ward where it was supposed to be constructed. — Credit: Newark Public Library
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.
Ken Gibson, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Harry Belafonte (June 15, 1970)
Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer (left), Ken Gibson (center), and Harry Belafonte (right), march side-by-side down Broad Street on June 15, 1970, to promote Gibson’s mayoral campaign. Gibson won the run-off election the next day, becoming Newark’s first African American Mayor. –Credit: UPI Telephoto
Irvine Turner Campaign Pamphlet, 1958
Campaign pamphlet distributed during Irvine I. Turner’s successful 1958 campaign for City Council in the Central Ward. Turner was the incumbent in the race, after becoming Newark’s first African-American City Councilman in 1954. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Irvine Turner 1954 Campaign Card
Campaign card distributed during Irvine I. Turner’s 1954 City Council campaign. Turner won race in the Central Ward to become Newark’s first African American City Councilman. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Imperiale For Mayor Committee Flyer (1970)
Letter from Anthony Imperiale’s 1970 campaign for Mayor of Newark. Imperiale and his North Ward Citizens Committee gained notoreity for the cache of weapons, including an armored car, that they claimed to have and for giving voice to white fears and resentment after the 1967 Newark rebellion. Although he was elected Councilman in the 1968 election, Imperiale was soundly defeated in the Mayoral election.
Proposal for Newark Convention Committee-ilovepdf-compressed
In this draft proposal for the 1969 Black and Puerto Rican Convention, the planning committee describes the purpose of the Convention and explains the need for Black and Puerto Rican political power in the city. The Convention was organized by an array of inviduals and organizations in Newark to formally select the “Community’s Choice” for Mayor and City Council in the 1970 election.
