Flyer encouraging Newark community members to vote in the Model Cities Neighborhood Council election on April 22, 1968. Model Cities was a federally funded grant program to cities with a mandate to plan integrated designs for the “Model Neighborhood.” –Credit: Junius Williams Collection
Roster of the United Community Corporation’s (UCC) Board of Trustees for the 1965-1966 program year. Under the UCC’s bylaws, “members shall not represent but hsould be representative of government, social agencies, business and labor, religious and ethnic groups, as well as those in the community who are to benefit most from the work of the Corporation.” — Credit: Newark Public Library
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
Letter from Rev. Kim Jefferson, Executive Secretary of the Greater Newark Council of Churches, to Robert Lilley, chairman of the Governor’s Select Commission on Civil Disorder, on February 26, 1968. The Commission was convened by Governor Hughes to study “the causes, the incidents, and the remedies” for the 1967 Newark rebellion. — Credit: Newark Public Library
