Available Resources on NJ Latino Riots

○ Books that reference NJ Latino Riots (handout) ○ NJ Latino Riot Collection (inventory) ○ Olga J. Wagenheim, PhD- Papers (82 boxes; only some relevant): The Olga J. Wagenheim, PhD Papers consist of biographical and personal material; material relating directly to Wagenheim's teaching career at Rutgers University-Newark; background files on her publications, her public appearances, and her organizational work; and a very extensive collection of research material on Puerto Rico, Puerto-Rican Americans (especially Puerto Ricans in New Jersey), Latin American and Caribbean history and cultures, oral history, women's studies, and other topics. Specific items: • keynote address on the 25th anniversary of Puerto Rican riot; • Several student papers about the riots and oral history interviews of eyewitnesses completed by Dr. Wagenheim's students for her class in 2000. Following is a list of the interviewees: ■ Willie Sanchez (eyewitness) – also have a Latino Oral History: Justice interview in which he discusses the riots ■ John Morello (officer who was acquitted of murder charges) ● We also have the court transcripts of this 2 day trial ■ Raul Davila (Newark's Public Information Officer at the time of the riots) ■ Gustav Heningburg (President of the Greater Newark Coalition, an organization created in response to the '67 riots to try and build bridges among the different groups of Newark, at the time of the riots) ■ Sigfredo Carrion (active member of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party and one of the leaders of The Committee Against Repression and Police Brutality, who met with Mayor Gibson with a list of demands from the community) ■ Kenneth Gibson (Mayor of Newark at the time of the riots) ○ Latino Oral History Collection ○ Latino Life Stories: Carmen Martinez, Jesus Padilla, Judge Joseph Rodriguez, and Miguel "Don Mike" Rodriguez ○ Justice Project: Felipe Chavana and William Q. Sanchez ○ Several reports by the Newark Human Rights Commission: • Human Relations Profile: Newark, 1965 – A Special Report • Public Hearing on Conditions in the Hispanic Community, 1976 • The Puerto Ricans in Newark, New Jersey: A study, commentary and statistical analysis of the Puerto Rican in Newark with additional statistics of the national Puerto Rican population, undated – ca. mid 1960s Click here for a downloadable PDF