Press release issued by the Rutgers News Service on March 3, 1969, which describes the University’s responses to each of the demands of the Black Organization of Students (BOS). BOS members took over Conklin Hall on February 24th for three days, after the administration rejected their demands for greater recruitment of minority students and faculty. –Credit: John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers University-Newark
Testimony of Harry Wheeler, director of the Committee Against Negro and Puerto Rican Removal, before the Governor’s Select Commission on Civil Disorder on December 8, 1967. The Commission was held following the 1967 Newark rebellion to investigate the causes of the rebellion and called witnesses to testify like a Grand Jury. –Credit: Rutgers University Digital Legal Library Repository
Statement presented by Mayor Addonizio on September 15, 1965 to address the issue of a “police review board.” Addonizio made this announcement after the Newark Human Rights Commission held, on his orders, a series of four public hearings on the topic in July and August. The members of the Commission split 6-6 in their vote on the issue and Mayor Addonizio rejected the proposed board about a week later. Instead of a review board, Addonizio announced that all future allegations of police brutality would be forwarded to the FBI. In addition, the Mayor instituted a citizen observer program, a Human Relations Training Institute, a community-relations post within the police department, and a code of conduct for the police that outlawed using derogatory words toward citizens. — Credit: NJ State Archives
