Flyer distributed in the Central Ward to encourage community members to encourage community unity to protest the seizure of land for the construction of a medical school. — Credit:
Flyer distributed in the Central Ward to encourage community members to encourage community unity to protest the seizure of land for the construction of a medical school.
Headline from a flyer distributed in the Central Ward to encourage community members to encourage community unity to protest the seizure of land for the construction of a medical school.
Flyer distributed in the Central Ward to encourage community members to attend the “blight hearings” on June 12, 1967 to protest the seizure of land for the construction of a medical school. — Credit: Junius Williams Papers
Excerpt from the stenographic transcript of Clinton Bey’s comments to the Central Planning Board on June 29, 1967 during the “blight hearings.” These public hearings were held to determine if areas in the Central Ward were “blighted” so that the lands could be taken by eminent domain for the construction of the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry. — Credit: Newark Public Library
