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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

Turner Seeks Search Probe (January 8, 1956)

Clipping from an unmarked newspaper on January 8, 1956, reporting on Councilman Irvine Turner’s call for a meeting with the Newark Police Director in response to unfair treatment in the Central Ward. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Newark Police Dept Memo, July 17 1967- Don Gottwerth trying to organize white citizens against negroes (C-72)

Memo submitted to the Intelligence Unit of the Newark Police Department on July 17, 1967 regarding a white Newark resident “trying to organize white citizens against Negroes in the city.” The organizer, a bus driver on Springfield Avenue named Don Gottwerth, is quoted as saying “There is going to be a lot of trouble even after this violence quiets down because the negro is after the white man.” The organization was officially organized on August 1, 1967 as “Loyal Americans for Law and Order.” Gottwerth’s organization reflected the attitudes of many people within Newark’s white communities in response to the 1967 rebellion. — Credit: New Jersey State Archives