Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued by Operation Understanding’s Concerned Citizens Committee for the Stella Wright Homes. 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
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
Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued on February 1, 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
Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued on December 26, 1972 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
Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued on December 7, 1972 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
Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued on April 15, 1971 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
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
