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
Report submitted by Newark Police Captain Charles Kinney, regarding his “Investigation Into Possible Criminal Conspiracy During Riots of July 1967.” Wright was one of several figures under surveillance from the Newark Police Department before and after the 1967 Newark Rebellion. The report relied mostly on word-of-mouth accounts from informants, with little hard evidence to support its allegations. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries
