Newark Police Department report on members of the Newark-Essex Chapter of CORE distributing leaflets outside of Hahne’s department store on Broad Street. Members of CORE, led by Fred Means, distributed leaflets to encourage Newark’s Black and Puerto Rican communities to protest discriminatory hiring practices at the store in 1966. -Credit: Newark Public Library
Newark Police Department report on members of the Newark-Essex Chapter of CORE distributing leaflets outside of Hahne’s department store on Broad Street. Members of CORE, led by Fred Means, distributed leaflets to encourage Newark’s Black and Puerto Rican communities to protest discriminatory hiring practices at the store in 1966. -Credit: Newark Public Library
A speech written by William A. Mercer, Coordinator of the Business and Industrial Coordinating Council (BICC), that he presented at the National Conference on Black Power in Newark. The Black Power Conference began just days after the 1967 Newark Rebellion had come to a close and brought a wide array of national Civil Rights and Black Power leaders to Newark. — Credit: Newark Public Library
A statement prepared by the Newark Area Planning Association (NAPA) and law volunteers from Vista (Volunteers in Service to America) that put forth a comprehensive argument for an alternate plan for the development of the College of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark’s Central Ward. NAPA 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
In this draft proposal for the 1969 Black and Puerto Rican Convention, the planning committee describes the purpose of the Convention and explains the need for Black and Puerto Rican political power in the city. The Convention was organized by an array of inviduals and organizations in Newark to formally select the “Community’s Choice” for Mayor and City Council in the 1970 election.
Flyer distributed by the Newark Coordinating Council (NCC) and the NAACP announcing a rally to organize around employment discrimination in the building and construction trades in Newark. Despite momentous protests at the Barringer High School construction site two years earlier, Newark’s Black and Puerto Rican communities still struggled to gain equal employment opportunities in the building and construction industries. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Article from an unmarked newspaper on March 25, 1964, covering the plans of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to launch a ‘direct action campaign’ against the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company. CORE launced the campaign in an attempt to force the company to hire a greater proportion of African American workers and supervisors. At the time, only 16 of the company’s 2,200 supervisors were African American. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Article from the Newark Evening News on July 20, 1963 covering demonstrations at the White Castle on Elizabeth Avenue led by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). CORE picketed at the diner to protest discrimination in hiring practices, as nearly all of the diner’s staff was white in a predominantly Black neighborhood. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Article from the New Jersey Afro-American covering demonstrations at the construction site of the Rutgers University Law Building in 1964. Various civil rights organizations, including the NAACP, CORE, Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), and Puerto Rican populations protested the $2.5 million project that employed no Black or Puerto Rican workers. — Credit: New Jersey Afro-American
Letter to the Editor of the New Jersey Afro-American newspaper commemorating the first anniversary of the Business and Industrial Coordinating Council’s founding. The letter, from the BICC, highlights some of the accomplishments of the organization during its first year. — Credit: New Jersey Afro-American, Newark Public Library
