My Newark Story - Newark Public Library

My Newark Story

The Newark Public Library received a generous grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to digitize a portion of its historical materials which are available in our digital archive @ digital.npl.org

SUBJECT GUIDES

Newark’s History

Primary Source Sets

Library Exhibits

Books

Lesson Plans

These lesson plans use our digital archive but use old links, the new link for the archive is http://digital.npl.org

Collections

Online Materials

Activities

African Americans

Primary Source Sets

Exhibits

Books

  • book list for children grade K-10 about the migration experience

Lesson Plans

These lesson plans use our digital archive but use old links, the new link for the archive is http://digital.npl.org

General Collections:

People:

Subjects:

Other Online Databases

Non-Digitized Collections by Subject

Primary Source Sets:

Collections:

Subjects

Non-Digitized Collections by Subject

Lesson Plans

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ABOUT MY NEWARK STORY

The Newark Public Library received a generous grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to digitize a portion of its historical materials which document the Great Migration and Latino Immigration experience into Newark, NJ. The project, which concluded on July 31, 2018, promoted learning and outreach to children throughout Newark.The Library digitized collections from the Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center and the New Jersey Hispanic Research and Information Center. Many of these materials are available in our digital archive. As part of this project, the Newark Public Library promoted family literacy initiatives. The Library produced and organized: school visits, a professional development day for educators, traveling exhibits, a free activity booklet to be distributed to students in grades 3-8 and community history days.

Ongoing support is provided by the NJ Historical Commission.