Booklet published by the National Urban Coalition, covering the Stella Wright Rent Strike and the roles played by the Greater Newark Urban Coalition in negotiating the strike’s settlement. In April 1970, tenants in the high-rise building began a rent strike to force building repairs that lasted four years. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Reprint of an article from “Newark! Magazine,” featuring the Greater Newark Urban Coalition and highlighting some of the Coalition’s various actions and accomplishments. Gustav Heningburg was the first president of this coalition of business, community, and political leaders, and served in that capacity for 12 years.
Reprint of an article from “Newark! Magazine,” featuring the Greater Newark Urban Coalition and highlighting some of the Coalition’s various actions and accomplishments. Gustav Heningburg was the first president of this coalition of business, community, and political leaders, and served in that capacity for 12 years.
Portrait of Gustav Heningburg, longtime Newark community leader and civic activist. Credit- Newark Public Library
Profile of Kenneth A. Gibson distributed at the Black and Puerto Rican Convention to promote his candidacy for mayor in the 1970 election. The Convention was held in Newark from November 14-16, 1969 to formally select the “Community’s Choice” for Mayor and City Council in the 1970 election.
Address given to the Governor’s Select Commission on Civil Disorders by an unidentified member of the Commission, about a year after the publication of the Commission’s findings in Report for Action. In this address, the speaker criticizes the city of Newark and State of New Jersey for failing to implement the vast majority of the recommendations of the Commission, “the fulfillment of which it considered mandatory to the establishment of order and justice.” Only 26 of the Commission’s 99 recommendations were implemented. — Credit: Newark Public Library
