For further reading:
This exhibit is not meant to be comprehensive. It is a survey, designed to spur discussion and interest. For further exploration, consider the sources below. Many more resources on the history of Newark are available at the Newark Public Library, in the Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center and the New Jersey Hispanic Research & Information Center.
BOOKS
Curvin, Robert. (2014). Inside Newark: Decline, Rebellion, and the Search for Transformation. New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Dorwat, Jeffrey M. (2001). Camden County, New Jersey: The Making of a Metropolitan Community
1626-2000. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Fitzpatrick, Joseph P. (1971). Puerto Rican Americans: The Meaning of Migration to the Mainlan.
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Gillette, Jr., Howard (2005). Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Hidalgo, Hilda. (1971). The Puerto Ricans in Newark, N.J. [Newark, N.J. : Aspira, Inc.]
Krasovic, Mark. (2016). The Newark Frontier: Community Action in the Great Society. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Porambo, Ron. (1971). No Cause for Indictment: An Autopsy of Newark. New York: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston.
Tuttle, Brad R. (2009). How Newark Became Newark: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an American City.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rivergate Books.
Williams, Junius. (2014). Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power. Berkeley, CA:
North Atlantic Books.
Winters, Stanley B. (1979). From Riot to Recovery : Newark After Ten Years. Washington, D.C.:
University Press of America.
Woodard, Komozi. (1999). A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power
Politics. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press.
REPORTS ON CIVIL UNREST OF 1960s and 1970s
Governor's Select Commission on Civil Disorder, State of New Jersey. (1968). Report for Action.
[Trenton, NJ: The Commission?]
URL: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/69748NCJRS.pdf
Issued after the New Jersey civil disturbances of 1967, including the "Newark riots."
Human Relations Profile: Newark 1965. (1965). A Special Report by Ralph Zinn. Newark, NJ: Newark
Human Rights Commission.
Issued in the wake of urban unrest in neighboring cities.
Public Hearing Report on Conditions in the Hispanic Community. (1976). Newark, NJ: Newark Human
Rights Commission.
Issued after the 1974 civil disturbances and multitudes "of requests from the leaders of the Hispanic
Community to bring to public light the problems facing Hispanic residents".
United States. Kerner Commission. (1968). Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil
Disorders. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
URL: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/8073NCJRS.pdf
Issued in the wake of urban unrest nationwide in the 1960s.
NEWS COVERAGE
News Articles from the Events of July 1967, Newark Evening News (July 13 - 16, 1967). Retrieved
November 16, 2016 from http://www.npl.org/Pages/Collections/1967articles.html.
New Jersey Latino Riots Collection, 1963 – 2004. The Puerto Rican Community Archives of the NJ
Hispanic Research & Information Center, Newark Public Library.
NEWARK CIVILIAN COMPLAINT REVIEW BOARD
Petition by ACLU in 2010 for an investigation into the Newark Police Department:
https://www.aclu-nj.org/files/5213/1540/4574/090910NPDUSDOJPEtition.pdf
United States Department of Justice. (2014). Investigation of the Newark Police Department.
[Washington, D.C.] : United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division.
URL: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/2014/07/22/newark_findings_7-22-14.pdf
ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS
Anthony, Daniel S. Daniel Sutherland Anthony Papers, 1942-1976. The Charles F. Cummings New Jersey
Information Center, Newark Public Library.
Guyot, Dorothy. Newark Police Records (Northwestern University Project on Governmental Responses
to Crime led by Dr. Dorothy Guyot), 1930-1978. The Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information
Center, Newark Public Library.
Latino Oral History Collection, Hispanic Reference Collection of the NJ Hispanic Research & Information
Center, Newark Public Library
Newark (N.J.) Human Rights Commission. The 25th Anniversary Exhibits, 1977. The Charles F. Cummings
New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library.
Newark (N.J.) Police Department Collection, 1915-1983. The Charles F. Cummings New Jersey
Information Center, Newark Public Library.
Olga J. Wagenheim, PhD – Papers, The Puerto Rican Community Archives of the NJ Hispanic Research &
Information Center, Newark Public Library.
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