master plan
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
The Master Plan Newsletter (Jan 25, 1968)-ilovepdf-compressed
Newsletter of the Emergency Committee to Stop Route 75, a Newark Area Planning Association (NAPA) initiative, to spread information about the proposed highway and the efforts to stop its construction. Route 75, an eight lane highway planned to run North to South, would have cut the Central Ward in half and displaced thousands of Black and Puerto Rican residents.
Medical School Agreement- June 12, 1967-ilovepdf-compressed (1)
Agreement reached on June 12, 1967 between the City of Newark, the Newark Housing Authority, and the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry. In the agreement, the City of Newark agrees to deliver land to the college, even though the areas had not yet been deemed “blighted” and the “blight hearings” were still taking place.
Fighting the Blight or Urban Resistance to Authoritarian Social Change by A Veteran of Newark’s Blight Wars of the 50s and 60s-ilovepdf-compressed
Instructional leaflet from an unnamed “veteran of Newark’s blight wars of the 1950’s and 1960’s” explaining how blight hearings work and offering suggestions for community opposition to a blight declaration.
Neighborhood Boundaries and Urban Renewal Areas (as of October 1963)
Map of proposed urban renewal projects in Newark from the city’s 1964 Master Plan prepared by the Central Planning Board. Nearly all of the urban renewal projects were to be located in the Central Ward, where the majority of the city’s black and Puerto Rican communities lived and worked. Though these communities were to be deeply impacted by urban renewal projects, they had very little representation in the planning processes.
Fighting the Blight or Urban Resistance to Authoritarian Social Change by A Veteran of Newark’s Blight Wars of the 50s and 60s
Instructional leaflet from an unnamed “veteran of Newark’s blight wars of the 1950’s and 1960’s” explaining how blight hearings work and offering suggestions for community opposition to a blight declaration. — Credit: Newark Public Library
