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    • Chapter 2: 1950-1960
      • African American Migration, Pt. 2
      • Culture of Political Activism in Newark (1940s-50s)
      • The Black Vote and the Commission Form of Government
      • Electing the first Black Power Leader
      • The New Black Political Class
    • Chapter 3: 1960-1970
      • Part 1: Black Resistance Builds
      • Part 2: Newark Rebellion
      • Part 3: New Directions in Black Politics
    • Chapter 4: 1970-1974
      • Amiri Baraka and Cultural Nationalism
      • The Transformation of the Black Freedom Movement
      • Public Housing and the Stella Wright Rent Strike
      • Puerto Rican Political Movement
      • Education and the Newark Teachers Strikes
      • Struggles for Police Reform
      • Job Training and Black Employment
      • Graft and Corruption
      • Black Business Development
      • The Newark Agreements and the NCTTC
      • Evaluating Ken Gibson’s Legacy
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Eddie Moss

Chapter Three- Part Two- Victims

Eddie Moss was the oldest of Emerson and Louise Moss’s four sons. The family lived at 240 Livingston Street, where they were raising Eddie and his brothers, Clarence, Michael, and Jerry. On Friday, July 14th, the Moss family and Eddie’s uncle, Jimmy Cannon, piled into their 1957 yellow and black Chevrolet and left to get […]

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Cornelius Murray

Chapter Three- Part Two- Victims

On Friday afternoon, July 14th, Cornelius Murray, Jr. was walking up Jones Street toward Springfield Avenue when he ran into his friends, Jesse Koon and Morris Marsette. Just before they spotted Murray, Koon and Marsette noticed two Newark Police officers with guns in the window of a building on the street. About fifteen minutes earlier, […]

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Albert Mersier Jr.

Chapter Three- Part Two- Victims

Albert Mersier, Jr.’s parents, Albert Sr. and Mrs. Gussie Mersier, had moved to Newark from Lincolnton, Georgia thirty years before the rebellion. Mr. Mersier, Sr. had managed to purchase two bars in the city, the Cozy Corner and the Babalu Club, after years of hard work. During this time, the Mersier’s had five children—four daughters […]

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