Reprint of an article from “Newark! Magazine,” featuring the Greater Newark Urban Coalition and highlighting some of the Coalition’s various actions and accomplishments. Gustav Heningburg was the first president of this coalition of business, community, and political leaders, and served in that capacity for 12 years.
Reprint of an article from “Newark! Magazine,” featuring the Greater Newark Urban Coalition and highlighting some of the Coalition’s various actions and accomplishments. Gustav Heningburg was the first president of this coalition of business, community, and political leaders, and served in that capacity for 12 years.
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
Leaflet distributed by the Vanguard Democrats, a progressive political organization in Newark, on July 22, 1967. The leaflet proclaims, “We must not allow the magnificent demonstration of UNITY by the oppressed people in the ghetto to be wasted,” and provides a list of objectives for Black political, social, and economic empowerment. — Credit: Junius Williams Papers
