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Statement of Louis Danzig to NJ Committee on Civil Rights (June 29, 1966)
Statement made by Newark Housing Authority director, Louis Danzig, before the New Jersey Committee on Civil Rights on June 29, 1966. In his statement, Danzig offered his views on the state of public housing in Newark as it related to the civil rights of the city’s Black populations. — Credit: City of Newark Archives and Record Management
Black NewArk (V 1, No 1 April 1968)
The first edition of Black NewArk, the local newspaper of the Committee For Unified Newark (CFUN), published in April 1968. Black NewArk was one of several media outlets developed by Amiri Baraka to promote Black cultural nationalism in Newark and the nation. — Credit: NYU Tamiment Library
Addonizio is given ultimatum (June 15, 1963)
— Credit: Newark Public Library
Mayor to meet union heads on charges of hiring bias (NJ AfroAmerican, June 11,1963)
Clipping from an unmarked newspaper, covering the plans of the Newark Coordinating Council (NCC) to picket city construction sites if city officials did not take action against employment discrimination of Black and Puerto Ricans in the building and construction trades. The article includes a list of demands issued to Mayor Addonizio by the NCC, which was comprised of various civil rights organizations in the city. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Flyer- Wrap Up Jim Crow Rally (NCC, NAACP Oct 15, 1965)
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
Cites Business and Industrial Committee’s Success in Finding Jobs (NJ Afro-American, August 29,1964
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
Newark Police Memo on CORE Demonstrations at Barringer (July 29, 1963)
Police report submitted on July 29, 1963 regarding demonstrations at the Barringer High School construction site to protest hiring discrimination in the building and construction trades in Newark against Blacks and Puerto Ricans. — Credit: NJ State Archives
Flyer- End Discrimination Against Negroes and Puerto Ricans
Flyer distributed by the Newark Coordinating Council (NCC) to encourage community support of protests at the Barringer High School construction site. The NCC, which was comprised of various civil rights organizations in the city, organized demonstrations at the site to protest hiring discrimination in the building and construction trades in Newark against Blacks and Puerto Ricans. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Emergency Memo on Barringer HS Incident from Daniel Anthony to Addonizio- Jul 3, 1963
Press release from Newark Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Executive Director, Dan Anthony, announcing that after a six-hour hearing the Commission had “found discrimination in the employment patterns of the workforce at Barringer High School.” Mayor Addonizio had tasked the Commission with conducting an investigation to determine if hiring discrimination existed within the building and construction industries in the city. — Credit: Newark Public Library
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