Press release issued by Amiri Baraka’s Temple of Kawaida on March 6, 1973 criticizing the National Teamsters Union for supporting white opposition to the construction of Kawaida Towers. Kawaida Towers, a high-rise housing project that Baraka planned to build in Newark’s predominantly white North Ward, was met by fierce opposition from white residents and politicians. — Credit: The Black Power Movement, Pt. 1 (microfilm)
Statement given by Marie Gainer to Jeff Henry of Newark Legal Services Project, in which she describes the shooting of her mother, Hattie Gainer, in her Hayes Homes apartment on July 15. — Credit: Junius Williams Papers
Deposition of 35-year-old Morris Marsette before the Essex County Grand Jury, in which he describes police opening fire outside of the R&R Lounge on Jones Street. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Deposition of Reverend Cornelius Murray, father of Cornelius Murray Jr, before the Essex County Grand Jury, in which he describes learning of his son’s killing and his visit to the morgue. Rev. Murray states that he was told of Cornelius being shot in the back, but found in the morgue with his head split open. — Credit: Newark Public Library
