Flyer distributed to protest the arrest and trial of LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), who was arrested and beaten by police during the 1967 Newark rebellion on allegations of gun possession. Newark Police alleged that the flyer was printed and distributed by the United Community Corporation at 124 Branford Place in Newark. — Credit: New Jersey State Archives
Transcript of address given by Governor Richard J. Hughes to the Governor’s Select Commission for the Study of Civil Disorder in New Jersey on August 8, 1967. The Commission was convened by Governor Hughes to study “the causes, the incidents, and the remedies” for the 1967 Newark rebellion. The Governor’s Commission, also known as the Lilley Commission after its chair Robert Lilley, held months of hearings from Newark residents and later published its findings in Report for Action. — Credit: New Jersey State Archives
Summary report from New Jersey’s Division of Public Welfare on the state’s assistance activities for the month of June, 1967. The report provides detailed information on the type and scope of welfare assistance provided, along with important statistics on “length of time on assistance” (p. 4) and “amount expended on assistance per inhabitant” (p. 5). — Credit: New Jersey State Archives
Application form for emergency assistance through the City of Newark’s Division of Welfare. The regulations for welfare recipients could be very strictly enforced, particularly in regards to living arrangements and sources of income, and could result in termination of benefits. — Credit: New Jersey State Archives
Pamphlet produced by the Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund For Racial Equality in July of 1967 to inform Newark’s welfare recipients of their rights in the welfare system and how to get assistance. — Credit: New Jersey State Archives
Sidewalk view of “slum” housing in Newark. Housing discrimination in the city segregated Newark’s Black communities to areas where this type of housing predominated. — Credit: WPA Photographs, New Jersey State Archives
Sidewalk view of “slum” housing in Newark. Housing discrimination in the city segregated Newark’s Black communities to areas where this type of housing predominated. — Credit: WPA Photographs, New Jersey State Archives
A view from the sidewalk of the Prudential Apartments in Newark. Many of the city’s middle-to-upper-class African American residents, including politicians, musicians, and athletes, lived here. — Credit: WPA Photographs, New Jersey State Archives
Headline from a page within a Probe Magazine special edition, titled “Riot or Black Revolution, A Special Guide for Brothers and Sisters Truly Interested in Freeing Their People.” — Credit: New Jersey State Archives
Poster distributed by the United Afro American Association after the 1967 Newark rebellion. The poster depicts Uncle Sam as a devilish figure, yelling “Riot!” as he struggles to hold back a black man with a club. Many in Newark’s Black communities saw the July events as “rebellions” or “uprisings” against oppression, while white communities and politicians viewed them as “riots” against law and order. — Credit: New Jersey State Archives
