Assorted Newspaper Clippings on Larrie Stalks-ilovepdf-compressed
A collection of newsclippings from the Newark Evening News in the 1960s covering the political career of Larrie West Stalks. –Credit: Junius Williams Collection
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Junius Williams Notes on Demands to Gov. Hughes at Morven (Jan. 19, 1968)
Notes taken by Junius Williams, head of the Newark Area Planning Association (NAPA), on demands that NAPA and the Committee Against Negro and Puerto Rican Removal would issue to Governor Richard Hughes during a meeting about the Medical School Negotiations on January 19, 1968. This meeting was seen as a turning point in the Medical School Negotiations. NAPA and the Committee Against Negro and Puerto Rican Removal 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
Junius Williams Notes from Meeting at Louise Epperson’s House (Jan. 3, 1968)
Notes taken by Junius Williams, head of the Newark Area Planning Association (NAPA), during a meeting at the home of Committee Against Negro and Puerto Rican Removal leader Louise Epperson’s house. NAPA and the Committee Against Negro and Puerto Rican Removal 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
Flyer- Who Will Control the Poverty Program_
Flyer distributed to warn against City Hall control of the United Community Corporation and encourage community members to vote for representatives from their neighborhood to the UCC Board of Trustees. City officials in Newark feared that the antipoverty program would undermine their political power in the city and moved to exert control over the antipoverty agency. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Map of UCC Area Boards (1966)
Map from the United Community Corporation (UCC) Program Report of 1965-1966 showing the locations of the UCC’s Area Boards in Newark. According to Executive Director Cyril Tyson, the Area Board districts generally conformed to the ward boundaries, which “made it seem that some parallel potentially political structure was being set up in Newark.” — Credit: Newark Public Library
Cover Page from Transcript of Newark Human Rights Commission Hearing on Police Advisory Review Board (August 3, 1965)
Cover page from the fourth and final public hearing of the Newark Human Rights Commission on a Police Advisory Review Board in 1965. The Commission held these hearings from July 13 to August 3 to gather public testimony on a proposed “police advisory review board” in the wake of the fatal shooting of Lester Long by Patrolman Henry Martinez. The Commission held an executive session to vote on a resolution following the hearings, where the members were split 6-6 on the issue. The review board was not established and the struggle over a police advisory board continued through the 1960s, and beyond. — Credit: City of Newark Archives and Records Management Center
ACLU Newsletter on Lester Long and Police Advisory Board (June 1965)
Newsletter from the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU) summarizing the ways in which various organizations acted in response to the fatal shooting of Lester Long by Newark Patrolman Henry Martinez. The shooting of Lester Long was one of the most well-known and contentious cases of alleged police brutality in Newark during the 1960s and reinvigorated community demands for a police review board. — Credit: Newark Public Library
