Mayor Ken Gibson Drives a Bulldozer
Mayor Gibson poses for a photo on a bulldozer with construction workers. –Credit: Newark Public Library
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Addonizio is given ultimatum (June 15, 1963)
— Credit: Newark Public Library
Mayor to meet union heads on charges of hiring bias (NJ AfroAmerican, June 11,1963)
Clipping from an unmarked newspaper, covering the plans of the Newark Coordinating Council (NCC) to picket city construction sites if city officials did not take action against employment discrimination of Black and Puerto Ricans in the building and construction trades. The article includes a list of demands issued to Mayor Addonizio by the NCC, which was comprised of various civil rights organizations in the city. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Flyer- Wrap Up Jim Crow Rally (NCC, NAACP Oct 15, 1965)
Flyer distributed by the Newark Coordinating Council (NCC) and the NAACP announcing a rally to organize around employment discrimination in the building and construction trades in Newark. Despite momentous protests at the Barringer High School construction site two years earlier, Newark’s Black and Puerto Rican communities still struggled to gain equal employment opportunities in the building and construction industries. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Newark Police Memo on CORE Demonstrations at Barringer (July 29, 1963)
Police report submitted on July 29, 1963 regarding demonstrations at the Barringer High School construction site to protest hiring discrimination in the building and construction trades in Newark against Blacks and Puerto Ricans. — Credit: NJ State Archives
Flyer- End Discrimination Against Negroes and Puerto Ricans
Flyer distributed by the Newark Coordinating Council (NCC) to encourage community support of protests at the Barringer High School construction site. The NCC, which was comprised of various civil rights organizations in the city, organized demonstrations at the site to protest hiring discrimination in the building and construction trades in Newark against Blacks and Puerto Ricans. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Emergency Memo on Barringer HS Incident from Daniel Anthony to Addonizio- Jul 3, 1963
Press release from Newark Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Executive Director, Dan Anthony, announcing that after a six-hour hearing the Commission had “found discrimination in the employment patterns of the workforce at Barringer High School.” Mayor Addonizio had tasked the Commission with conducting an investigation to determine if hiring discrimination existed within the building and construction industries in the city. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Telegram from John Collier to JFK, RFK, Gov. Hughes, Arthur Sills, and Mayor Addonizio
Telegram sent by Rev. John Collier to President John Kennedy, Attoenry General Robert Kennedy, Governor Richard Hughes, and NJ Attorney General Arthur Sills regarding the beatings of peaceful demonstrators at the Barringer High School construction site in July 1963. Members of the Newark Coordinating Council and their supporters were attacked by construction workers and police officers as they demonstrated against hiring discrimination in the building and construction industries at the construction site. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Brawl at School Picket Site (Daily News July 4, 1963)
Clipping from The Daily News on July 4, 1963, covering the violent conflicts that broke out at the Barringer High School Construction site the day before. Members of the Newark Coordinating Council and their supporters were attacked by construction workers and police officers as they demonstrated against hiring discrimination in the building and construction industries at the construction site. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Barringer Protest Due (July 1, 1963)
Clipping from an unmarked newspaper, covering the planned demonstrations at the construction site of Barringer High School by the Newark Coordinating Council (NCC). The NCC had given the city government 30 days to take action against hiring discrimination in the building and construction trades and announced that mass demonstrations would follow unless construction work was halted by City Hall. — Credit: Newark Public Library
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