Notes: If you receive unrelated results try placing your search in quotations, otherwise non-English language materials may appear. The majority of these databases require a Newark Library card, unless otherwise notes.
Primary Sources
- Newark Public Library Digital Collections Contains over 50,000 items from our local history collections on Newark. No card required.
- Newark Archives Project: Index to primary sources about Newark at libraries and archives around the world. No card required.
- Archives Unbound
- Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement
- Newark files from the National Negro Congress African America, Communists, and the National Negro Congress, 1933–1947
- Newark files from Civil Rights Congress in Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress
- Mentions in other African American collections including FBI files, correspondence with Fannie Lou Hammer, correspondence with the Negro Business League, etc.
- Small mentions in Jewish/holocaust collections i.e. lists of members etc.
- American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990
- Newark materials have been described by the Newark Archives Project
- Digitized Newark materials include Teacher’s Strike material, Newark Housing Authority Cases, Police Review Boards, and more.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender
- Articles on Newark from LGBT publications (1970s on)
- Manuscript collections include FBI files and items on the Oasis and the Episcopal Diocese of Newark
- Gale In Context: Middle School:
- Primary sources include recent videos and photos i.e. for example on environmental justice in Newark, MTV Video Awards, Newark Bears, and crime.
- Also transcripts from “Newark Civil and Social Agencies” (1939 and 1941).
- Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century
- Items mentioning Newark in Fascist and Anti-Fascist Booklets for example “The Jewish Role in the American Civil Rights Movement” and “Anti Defamation League of B’Nai Birth”
- Articles in political (extremist) publications like Searchlight Magazine and Instauration
- Manuscript collections include SDS, United Black Workers, Socialist Black Panthers, Chicano Legal Defense Fund, CORE, Republic of New Africa, peace movement, LGBT movement, and more, which mention Newark.
Newspaper Articles
- Newark Public Library Newspaper Collections: Contains the Newark Evening News, Sunday Call and other newspapers from Newark.
- Gale In Context: Middle School: Articles about Newark including contemporary newspapers and magazines.
- Points of View Reference Center: Includes contemporary newspaper and magazine articles.
Secondary Sources
- African American History Online: contains articles on various Newark topics like the Rebellion, Sharpe James, and Donald Payne, and excerpts from primary source on the Rebellion
- American History Online: contains articles on various Newark topics such as “Newark NJ and Muslim Americans” and “Cory Booker” and excerpts from primary source on the Rebellion and “Records of the Town of Newark”
- American Indian History Online: contains articles which mention Newark
- Ciao: limited number of articles that mention Newark Portuguese, Muslims, Hispanics In library use only.
Genealogy
Collections include NJ state census records and NJ vital records index, as well as original birth ledgers from NJ on Ancestry.com.
- Ancestry Library In library Use only
- FamilySearch.org (Affiliate library, collections not available from home are available in library)
- Heritage Quest