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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
Unity and Struggle (V 4, No 5 April 1975)
Volume 4, Number 5 of Unity and Struggle, the national newspaper of the Congress of Afrikan People (CAP), published in April 1975. Unity and Struggle was one of several media outlets developed by Amiri Baraka to promote Black cultural nationalism in Newark and the nation. — Credit: NYU Tamiment Library
NTU Strike Protestors
Members of the Newark Teachers Union (NTU), walk on a picket line during the 1970 teachers’ strike. –Credit: National Guardian, NYU Tamiment Library
CORE Flyer- Negro Community Supports Newark Teachers Union (Dec 4, 1965)
Flyer distributed by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to encourage support for the Newark Teachers Union strike in December, 1965. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Interview of Irish First Generation Woman, 63 yrs old (WPA Case History)
Transcript of a 1939 interview of a first generation Irish immigrant to Newark, conducted by staff of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA employed millions during the Great Depression through projects such as ethnological surveys of major cities like Newark. — Credit: New Jersey State Archives
