Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued in June 1973 by Operation Understanding. Operation Understanding was an interracial community organization of suburban and urban residents founded after the 1967 rebellion to address problems in Newark. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries
A 1975 groundbreaking ceremony of the New Community Corporation (NCC), an economic and housing development corporation founded in 1968 by Rev. William Linder. (L-R) George Wheeler (representative of Mayor Ken Gibson), Rev. Linder, Willie Wright (President of NCC), and William Blakely (Engelhard Industries). — Credit: D.J. Zehnder/John T. Cunningham
Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued on January 18, 1972 by Operation Understanding, a community organization in Newark. Tenants in the high-rise building began a rent strike in April 1970 to force building repairs. The strike lasted four years and was the longest in the nation’s history. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Mary Smith (right) addresses a community meeting, as Mayor Ken Gibson (seated, second from left) and others look on and listen. –Credit: Newark Public Library
