Roster of the United Community Corporation’s (UCC) Board of Trustees for the 1965-1966 program year. Under the UCC’s bylaws, “members shall not represent but hsould be representative of government, social agencies, business and labor, religious and ethnic groups, as well as those in the community who are to benefit most from the work of the Corporation.” — Credit: Newark Public Library
Report of the Newark Human Rights Commission after a special meeting held on June 21, 1965, to gather information about the shooting of Lester Long by Newark Patrolman Henry Martinez. The ACLU said of this report, “the only statement that the Commission was justified in making based on the evidence it gathered was that it did not have sufficient evidence to make a statement.” The shooting of Lester Long was one of the most well-known and contentious cases of alleged police brutality in Newark during the 1960s and reinvigorated community demands for a police review board. — Credit: Junius Williams Papers
Pamphlet distributed by the Newark Full Employment Project, a collaborative effort of organizations including the Clinton Hill Neighborhood Council and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to combat unemployment in the city in 1964. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Article from an unmarked newspaper on March 25, 1964, covering the plans of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to launch a ‘direct action campaign’ against the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company. CORE launced the campaign in an attempt to force the company to hire a greater proportion of African American workers and supervisors. At the time, only 16 of the company’s 2,200 supervisors were African American. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Note from the pamphlet: “This series of articles on the efforts of the Newark Business and Industrial Coordinating Committee to assist Negroes and Puerto Ricans in gaining employment was published by The Newark News in its issues of March 22-26, 1964. These pamphlets have been prepared by The News for distribution by the committee.” The BICC was established in the wake of the contentious protests at the Barringer High School construction sites in July 1963. — Credit: Doug Eldridge, The Newark News
