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Conference Work Paper by Bessie Smith
Conference paper prepared by Bessie Smith regarding “maximum feasible participation” of the poor in War on Poverty efforts in Newark. In the paper, Mrs. Smith describes the struggles for community control of the United Community Corporation, Newark’s Community Action Agency for War on Poverty funding. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Carol Glassman and Bessie Smith at Area Board Meeting (1965) copy
Newark Community Union Project (NCUP) members Carol Glassman (left) and Bessie Smith (right) preside over a meeting of the United Community Corporation’s Area Board #3 in 1965. –Credit: Robert Machover
Newark Police Dept Report on Willie Wright (Capt Charles Kinney)
Report submitted by Newark Police Captain Charles Kinney, regarding his “Investigation Into Possible Criminal Conspiracy During Riots of July 1967.” Wright was one of several figures under surveillance from the Newark Police Department before and after the 1967 Newark Rebellion. The report relied mostly on word-of-mouth accounts from informants, with little hard evidence to support its allegations. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries
A Movement of Many Voices-ilovepdf-compressed
Pamphlet distributed by the Economic Research and Action Project, an initiative of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to organize “an interracial movement of the poor.” The pamphlet served as an introduction and overview of the ERAP for supporters and new organizers, and includes an application form. –Credit: Junius Williams Collection
Tom Hayden and Junius Williams at Demonstration (1965)
Photograph of members of the Newark Community Union Project (NCUP) at a 1965 demonstration for a traffic light at Avon and Badger Avenues. Tom Hayden is pictured in the center of the photo, along with Junius Williams (sunglasses and sign). –Credit: Junius Williams Collection
Phil Hutchings Addresses Press Conference at The Spirit House (July, 1967)
A view inside a press conference held at Amiri Baraka’s Spirit House in Newark during the National Conference on Black Power in July, 1967. Addressing the microphone is Newark Community Union Project (NCUP) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) member Phil Hutchings. Also pictured are: cultural nationalist leader Ron Karenga (US Organization) to the left of Hutchings, Amiri Baraka behind Hutchings, and SNCC Chairman H. Rap Brown to the right of Hutchings. –Credit: Amiri Baraka Papers; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library
Med School Flyer- We Ain’t Gonna Move, Medical School for rich whites or Decent Homes for Black People-
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:
Letter to Police Director Dominick Spina
Letter received by Newark Police Director Dominick Spina, congratulating him on his “firm stand” against civil rights organizations in Newark. The author of the letter states that African Americans had “developed a complex of superiority…and they will stop at nothing to achieve their ridiculous demands.”
Med School Flyer- We Ain’t Gonna Move, Medical School for rich whites or Decent Homes for Black People-
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.
