Newspaper photos of Mayor Addonizio’s “inspection tour of ‘slum pockets” in Central Ward and Clinton Hill neighborhoods. Addonizio was prompted to personally inspect housing conditions after the Clinton Hill Neighborhood Council and Newark Community Union Project held rent strike demonstrations in the city that week. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Clipping from an unmarked newspaper covering Mayor Addonizio’s “inspection tour of ‘slum pockets” in Central Ward and Clinton Hill neighborhoods. Addonizio was prompted to personally inspect housing conditions after the Clinton Hill Neighborhood Council and Newark Community Union Project held rent strike demonstrations in the city that week. — Credit: Newark Public Library
A report of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) on “German Jews in Newark.” The WPA employed millions during the Great Depression through projects such as ethnological surveys of major cities like Newark. — Credit: New Jersey State Archives
