Article from the New York Times covering the Newark Construction Trades Training Council, which was formed after the Medical School Agreement to provide job training and placement for Black and Latino men on the construction project. James Walker, an executive director of NCTTC, is pictured in the photograph. –Credit: The New York Times
Transcript of James Walker’s comments to the Central Planning Board on June 13, 1967 during the “blight hearings.” These public hearings were held to determine if areas in the Central Ward were “blighted” so that the lands could be taken by eminent domain for the construction of the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry. –Credit: Newark Public Library
Transcript of Earl Harris’s comments to the Central Planning Board on June 13, 1967 during the “blight hearings.” These public hearings were held to determine if areas in the Central Ward were “blighted” so that the lands could be taken by eminent domain for the construction of the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry. –Credit: Newark Public Library
Transcript of Jesse Allen’s statement before the Central Planning Board on June 15, 1967 during one of the Medical School Blight Hearings. These public hearings were held to determine if areas in the Central Ward were “blighted” so that the lands could be taken by eminent domain for the construction of the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry. –Credit: Newark Public Library
Photograph of Louise Epperson from 1970. Mrs. Epperson, chair of the Committee Against Negro and Puerto Rican Removal, was instrumental in organizing opposition to the plans for a medical school in the Central Ward that would have displaced thousands of Black and Puerto Rican residents. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Flyer distributed in the Central Ward to encourage community members to encourage community unity to protest the seizure of land for the construction of a medical school. — Credit:
Stenographic transcript of Louise Epperson’s statement to the Central Planning Board on June 13, 1967 during the “blight hearings.” These public hearings were held to determine if areas in the Central Ward were “blighted” so that the lands could be taken by eminent domain for the construction of the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry. — Credit:
Flyer distributed in the Central Ward to encourage community members to encourage community unity to protest the seizure of land for the construction of a medical school.
Invitation from the Newark Organizers Training Institute on June 7, 1967 to attend an all-day meeting to plan “Summer Programs for the Newark Movement.” Phil Hutchings, Bob Curvin, Tom Hayden, Junius Williams, Terry Jefferson, Jesse Allen, Joe Whitley, and Willie Wright were the principle organizers of the event. –Credit: Junius Williams Collection
Invitation from the Newark Organizers Training Institute on June 7, 1967 to attend an all-day meeting to plan “Summer Programs for the Newark Movement.” Among the topics to be discussed was “stopping the Medical School.”
