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CAP Flyer for Pan Afrikan Reception in Harlem
Flyer for a “Pan-Afrikan Reception,” featuring leaders in African liberation struggles and sponsored by the Congress of Afrikan People (CAP) in New York City. The Congress of Afrikan People was founded in 1970 as a Pan-African, nationalist organization that promoted black political empowerment, with its headquarters in Newark, NJ. — Credit: Newark Public Library
LeRoi Jones Seized in Newark After Suffering Head Wound (NY Times July 14, 1967)
Article from the New York Times describing the arrest of LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) on July 14, 1967 during the Newark rebellion. Jones, who can be seen in the article bloodied and bandaged, was arrested on allegations of gun possession and beaten by the Newark Police. — Credit: Amiri Baraka Papers; Box 56, Folder 13; Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Columbia University
-Spirit House, The New Fortress,- by Amiri Baraka-ilovepdf-compressed
In this unpublished essay written in 2013, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) describes the histories of The Spirit House at 33 Stirling Street in Newark. Baraka explains the context of The Spirit House’s founding, along with its political, cultural, and historic significance for Newark and the Black Arts Movement. This essay was generously given to “The North” by Amina Baraka.
Mayor’s Remarks Made Before UCC (May 27, 1965)-ilovepdf-compressed
Address given by Mayor Addonizio to the Board of Directors of the United Community Corporation (UCC) in which he offers his views on what roles the organization should play in Newark. In the address, Addonizio urges the Board to “keep the UCC out of politics.” City officials in Newark feared that the antipoverty program would become a parallel government and undermine their political power in the city. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Martinez sues CORE, aides on charges in shooting case
Clipping from an unmarked newspaper covering a lawsuit filed by Newark Patrolman Henry Martinez against members of civil rights organizations in Newark. Martinez filed suit against James Farmer, Robert Curvin, Fred Means, and others for “libelous and slanderous” statements made against him after the patrolman fatally shot Lester Long. Martinez’s lawsuit followed in the wake of a similar suit filed by Lt. Thomas Gilligan in New York City after the officer shot and killed 15-year-old James Powell, sparking the 1964 Harlem rebellion. — Credit: Junius Williams Papers
Newark Human Rights Commission Report on Lester Long Shooting
Report of the Newark Human Rights Commission after a special meeting held on June 21, 1965, to gather information about the shooting of Lester Long by Newark Patrolman Henry Martinez. The ACLU said of this report, “the only statement that the Commission was justified in making based on the evidence it gathered was that it did not have sufficient evidence to make a statement.” 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: Junius Williams Papers
Transcript of WCBS ‘Let’s Find Out’ with Kenneth Clark- July 16 1967-
Transcript of a WCBS radio interview with Dr. Kenneth Clark on July 16, 1967, in which he discusses his interpretations and analysis of the ongoing rebellions in Newark. In the interview, Dr. Clark says “as a psychologist, I would suggest the hypothesis that in some unconscious way, or maybe not so unconscious, incoherent, way the rioting people are saying, we want this destroyed… They’re saying, you know, it’s the only way that we’ll get change.” — Credit: Newark Public Library
Spina tells how he hopes to keep riots out of Newark (NJ Afro American Aug 15,1964)
Article from the New Jersey Afro-American on August 15, 1964, summarizing a radio interview between Dominick Spina and Bernice Bass on WADO. Spina expressed his opposition to a “police review board” and “denied that police brutality now exists in Newark.” — Credit: New Jersey Afro-American, Newark Public Library
Social dynamite explodes, triggered by slum unrest (NJ Afro American Aug22,1964)
Article from the New Jersey Afro-American on August 22, 1964 describing the recent outbreak of “riots” in Paterson, Elizabeth, Passaic, and Jersey City. Mayor Addonizio is quoted as working ‘feverishly’ with leaders to ‘avoid the possibility of any outbreak of racial violence.’ — Credit: New Jersey Afro-American, Newark Public Library
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