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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

A Movement of Many Voices-ilovepdf-compressed

Pamphlet distributed by the Economic Research and Action Project, an initiative of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to organize “an interracial movement of the poor.” The pamphlet served as an introduction and overview of the ERAP for supporters and new organizers, and includes an application form. –Credit: Junius Williams Collection

Tom Hayden and Junius Williams at Demonstration (1965)

Photograph of members of the Newark Community Union Project (NCUP) at a 1965 demonstration for a traffic light at Avon and Badger Avenues. Tom Hayden is pictured in the center of the photo, along with Junius Williams (sunglasses and sign). –Credit: Junius Williams Collection

thumbnail of Newark Organizers Training Institute Letter- Invite to Newark Movement Conference at Echo Lake Park, Jun 18, 1967-ilovepdf-compressed

Newark Organizers Training Institute Letter- Invite to Newark Movement Conference at Echo Lake Park, Jun 18, 1967-ilovepdf-compressed

Invitation from the Newark Organizers Training Institute on June 7, 1967 to attend an all-day meeting to plan “Summer Programs for the Newark Movement.” Phil Hutchings, Bob Curvin, Tom Hayden, Junius Williams, Terry Jefferson, Jesse Allen, Joe Whitley, and Willie Wright were the principle organizers of the event. –Credit: Junius Williams Collection

Newark Organizers Training Institute Letter- Invite to Newark Movement Conference at Echo Lake Park, Jun 18, 1967-ilovepdf-compressed

Invitation from the Newark Organizers Training Institute on June 7, 1967 to attend an all-day meeting to plan “Summer Programs for the Newark Movement.” Among the topics to be discussed was “stopping the Medical School.”

Newark Police Report on UCC Subversive Activities (June 19, 1967)-ilovepdf-compressed

Police report forwarded to Newark Legal Services Project director, Oliver Lofton, from Newark Police Director Dominick Spina on June 19, 1967. The report was based on information provided by the City Clerk regarding alleged plans of the UCC Area Boards 2 and 3 to bring the Black Panthers to Newark. The report names several influential Black and Puerto Rican community leaders, including Lofton, Robert Curvin, Louise Epperson, Honey Ward, George Richardson, and Jesse Allen, as accomplices to a planned “revolt” by the “Spanish and Negro population” on June 27. The UCC and other community organizations in Newark were continuously subjected to official surveillance and later blamed for the outbreak of the 1967 Newark rebellion. — Credit: Junius Williams Papers

The War on Poverty in Newark, NJ (April, 1965)-ilovepdf-compressed

A printed collection of statements presented by members of the Newark Community Union Project (NCUP) to Adam Clayton Powell’s Congressional Committee investigating the War on Poverty in April, 1965. In their statements, these Newark residents describe a lack of community representation and involvement in the United Community Corporation (UCC) in Newark. As federal funding arrived in Newark, city officials and politicians jockeyed for control of the money for their own purposes, while the city’s poor communities sought access to the antipoverty programs. Mrs. Louise Patterson explains that “the Area Boards are being taken over by Ward Leaders and speeches by politicians and candidates for political office.” — Credit: Newark Public Library

Tom Hayden Memo to Doug Eldridge (Undated)

Memo from Newark Community Union Project (NCUP) organizer, Tom Hayden, to Newark Evening News reporter Doug Eldridge. Hayden delivered the memo for NCUP and UCC member Jesse Allen to inform the newspaper of the activities of UCC Area Board 3 within the community. — Credit: Junius Williams Papers

Clinton Hill Bldgs Hit- Pickets March Again (Newark Sunday News Aug 23, 1964)

Article from the Newark Sunday News covering a rent strike demonstration organized by the Clinton Hill Neighborhood Council and Newark Community Union Project (NCUP) at Clinton and Badger Avenues. The demonstrations were organized to support a rent strike by tenants to protest “rats, roaches, and ridiculous rents.” A rent strike was a tactic used by tenants to force a landlord to make repairs to a housing unit by witholding rent payment until repairs were made. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Police Memo- Clinton Ave Rent Strike Demonstration (Aug 17, 1964)

Memorandum from the Newark Police Department detailing their surveillance of a rent strike demonstration at the corner of Clinton and Badger Avenues. The demonstrations were organized to support a rent strike by tenants to protest “rats, roaches, and ridiculous rents.” A rent strike was a tactic used by tenants to force a landlord to make repairs to a housing unit by witholding rent payment until repairs were made. — Credit: Junius Williams Papers

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