Housing in Newark (WPA Report)-ilovepdf-compressed
Report by Works Progress Administration staff writers in the 1930s describing the housing conditions faced by Newark’s African American communities . — Credit: NJ State Archives
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The Third Ward (WPA Report)-ilovepdf-compressed (1)
Report by Works Progress Administration staff writers in the 1930s describing the living conditions of Newark’s African American communities in the city’s Third Ward. — Credit: NJ State Archives
The Negro in Newark (Report by the Newark Interracial Commission)-ilovepdf-compressed (1)
Report by the Newark Interracial Commission in the 1930s describing the conditions faced by African American migrants in Newark. — Credit: Newark Public Library
African American Migrant Family (1918)
Photograph from Survey magazine of an African American family that migrated from the South to Newark during the First Great Migration. — Credit: Newark Public Library
-Cotton Pickers in Northern Counties,- by Helen B. Pendleton (Excerpt)
Article from Survey magazine describing the challenges faced by African American migrants in Newark during the First Great Migration. — Credit: Stanford History Education Group
-Penalties of Migration-
Article from The Atlanta Constitution describing the migration of African Americans from the South to Newark and the troubles faced in the North. — Credit: Stanford History Education Group
