Haddonfield Town Dinner, 1946 - 1957

This is a collection of programs, invitations, and announcements for theatrical performances, festivals, art exhibits, and other public events in New Jersey.

This is a collection of collection of programs, invitations, and announcements for theatrical performances, festivals, art exhibits, and other public events in New Jersey. Newark-related organizations and institutions represented in the collection include: Columbus Day Celebration Committee of New Jersey (1961); Newark Literacy Campaign, Inc. (1991-1992); Sarah Vaughan Jazz Festival (1991); Newark Museum, Grand Reopening (1989); Newark Museum -- general (1990-1994); Friends of the Newark Public Library (program for 325th Anniversary of Newark, 1991); Pan-African Writers Conference (1989); Theater for the Twentieth Century, Rutgers University (1989-1990); Newark Public Library Opening of the African-American Room (1989); Newark Public Library general; Newark Festival of People (1989; 1991); Newark Public Library (1991); "A Living Portrait of Newark's People, Wellwater, Wishes & Words"; Newark InDepth Social History Exhibit, "Reminiscence: Newark and Its Youth" (1992); Alijira; Second Presbyterian Church (1987); Martin Luther King Memorial Dedication (1990); African-American Day Parade (1990); Krueger-Scott Mansion Rededication Ceremony (1990); and City of Newark Black History Month Events Calendar (1992). Verse4Verse hosted by Ras Baraka & Juba Dowdell at the Bridge Club 343 Washington St (undated); The Past Present and Future Gala for Integrity Inc. in Benardsville (2003?);Newark Downtown District Annual Stakeholder's Meeting (2003); Newark The Next 50 Years (NJPAC 2018); Krueger Scott Mansion Rededication Ceremony (Sept 18, 1990); Interfaith Prayer Service for Philip Murphy and Sheila Oliver (Sacred Heart, 2018); "Two Pianos Playing for Life" at the Paul Roebson Center, Rutgers (Holocaust survivors); A Mayor for All The People Kenneth Gibson's Newark (Dec 9, 2019, book talk/signing Rutgers); Agitate! The Legacy of Frederick Douglass and Abolition in Newark (April 17, 2019, Rutgers); "Sing in the Praise of King" (Symphony Hall - Jan 13, 2020); Mulberry Commons Opening (May 30, 2019); 40th Marion Thompson Wright Lecture program and flier "Black Futures"; Newark Peace Education Summit (2011); NJ Institute for Social Justice (undated); Newark Preservation and Landmarks Old First Museum / St. Lucy's Church program (May 19, 2013); Joachim Prinz film showing (Newark Museum 2014); Dodge Poetry Festival (2014); NJPAC Roth program (2013); Women's History Month Film Festival (Women in Media Newark 2015); Junius Williams designated Official Historian of Newark (Dec 10, 2018); The Arts Through Children's Eyes Mural Magic NJPAC May 25, 1994; Remembering Newark's Summer of Discontent 40 years later (brochure, 2007); 60th Anniversary of the NJ Law Against Discrimination (Essex County Courthouse, Nov 2, 2005); Dedication of Library-Humantiies Center Newark College of Engineering 1967; Newark Preservation and Landmarks 2009 Membership Meeting; Kenney Hospital Newark Landmarks Event 2005; MLK Memorial Lecture, Essex County College, (2023).

Other items include: "Saving Hudson & Manhattan Powerhouse" (2003); Tubes: Rails Under the Hudson (Hoboken Historical Musuem (2003); Swearing in of Philip Murphy and Sheila Oliver (2018) poetry programs; Haddonfield Town Dinner (1940s and 1950s); New Jersey Women's History Conference (NJHC 2019) cultural programs, ADL's 8th Annual Labor Solidarity Seder program (2007; Celebrating Integration Two Towns one community (South Orange/Maplewood 2010) etc; NJ Forum 2014 Kean University Nov 21-22, 2014; Choral Festival and Tercentenary Exhibit (1964)

Items stored in Nwk Misc. Ovsz Box 3: March for Our Lives Protest Sign (2018); People's Organization for Progress "Justice for Atatiana Jefferson" Protest Sign (2020); People’s Organization for Progress “Self-Determination for the Palestinian People” Protest Sign (2023).

Items stored in Nwk Misc. Ovsz Box 4: Rutgers AAUP-AFT Union Working Conditions Protest Sign (2023).