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
Read the My Newark Story Activity Book and Newark Eagles 101.
Subject Guide: African Americans
Subject Guide: Women
Subject Guide: Community Organizing
Subject Guide: Immigrants
Subject Guide: Hispanic Americans
Subject Guide: LGBTQ+
Lesson Plans
My Newark Story Curriculum
Exhibits
Activities
Book List
About My Newark Story
More Online Materials from NPL
African Americans
General Collections:
- Blacks in New Jersey Reports
- Al Henderson Photos
- Essex County Slave Records
- Krueger Scott Oral Histories
- Newark (N.J.) African Americans Collections
- Newark African American Newspapers
- Newark City News
- Newark Eagles Papers
- Tiny Prince Collection
People:
- D.J Henderson Papers
- Gus Heningburg Collection
- Harold A. Lett Papers
- Hughes Allison Collection
- Krueger Scott Oral Histories
- Newark Kenneth Gibson Collections
- Robert Curvin Collection
- William M. Ashby Papers
- Wynona M. Lipman Papers
Item Guides
Subjects:
Women
Collections:
Item Guides:
Subjects
Non-Digitized Collections by Subject
Community Organizing
Collections:
- Business and Industrial Coordinating Council (BICC) Collection
- Daniel Sutherland Anthony Papers
- Ernest Erber Collection
- Greater Newark HUD Tenants Coalition Papers
- Gus Heningburg Collection
- Harold A. Lett Papers
- William M. Ashby Papers
- Essex County Urban League Documents
- Family Service Bureau of Newark Collection
- Ironbound Community Corporation Collection
- Roy E. Norris Collection
- Newark Area Community Newsletters
Item Guides:
Subjects:
Immigrants
Collections:
- Yoland Skeete-Laessig Collection
- Newark Associations Collection
- Newark Census Statistics
- Newark Human Rights Commission Collection
Item Guides:
Subjects:
- Jews
- Irish Americans
- Polish Americans
- Italian Americans
- Puerto Ricans
- German Americans
- Cuban Americans
- Brazilian Americans
- Hispanic Americans
- Portuguese Americans
- Spanish Americans
- Emigration and immigration
- Population
Non-Digitized Collections by Subject
Hispanic Americans
Collections:
- ASPIRA Inc. of New Jersey Records
- Amilkar Velez-Lopez – Papers
- Hilda A. Hidalgo, PhD Button Collection
- Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey Records
- Julio M. Fuentes Papers
- La Hispanidad Newsletter Collection
- La Tribuna Newspaper Collection
- La Tribuna Photograph Collection
- Latino Oral Histories
- Maria Vizcarrondo Papers
- Maxine Lisboa Papers
- Puerto Rican Educators Association Records
- Sister Deborah Humphreys Papers
- Newark Human Rights Commission Collection
Subjects:
LGBTQ+
Collections:
Item Guides:
Grade K-8 with upper grade level extensions
Library Exhibits
- Made in Newark
- New Jersey at 350
- Newark at 350
- We Found the Way: Newark Voices from the Great Migration
Traveling Exhibits
Interpretive displays produced by teachers and librarians based on historical materials from our archives.
- a book list for children about the migration experience
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.

Baseball group, Woodland Avenue School, April 1951. Mr. Peter Rizzolo, Physical Education Instructor. Source: Newark Board of Education Photographs, Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center.
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:
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- school visits
- a professional development day for educators
- traveling exhibits
- a free activity booklet to be distributed to students in grades 3-8. Schools and organizations, please email specialcollections@npl.org to arrange a pickup. While supplies last.
- Community History Days
More Online Materials from NPL
The Newark Public Library Digital Collection includes Articles, Photos, Documents, Maps & More, over 50 collections with thousands of items. Here are some other materials the library has digitized.
- Newspaper Articles:
- Full-text articles about the 1967 Newark Riots from the Newark Evening News, July 13 – 16, 1967
- Knowing Newark: Selected Star-Ledger Columns by Charles F. Cummings, features over 500+ columns written about Newark by noted librarian, historian, and author Charles F. Cummings and originally published in the Star-Ledger
- Handouts:
- Newark’s Literary Lights (pdf of the 2016 publication, updated for the 350th Anniversary of the Founding of the City of Newark, NJ)
- Printable brochure for NJ Collections
- Youtube:
- NPL’s Youtube Account: youtube.com/NewarkPublicLibrary contains recordings out our historical programs.
- Programs co-sponsored by the Newark History Society can be found on their Youtube at youtube.com/NewarkHistorySocietyOrg