Newark African Americans Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection of miscellaneous material includes the following:
"The Arrow" (Black Urban Alliance Newsletter, 1996);
"Baraka, Amiri" (clippings);
"Black New-ark" (Newspaper Issues: January, May-June, August, November 1973)
"Black Power" (1967 Black Power conference: articles, correspondence, etc.);
"Black Perspective" (Publication of the Communications Committee of the Black Organization of Students, 1973)
"Blacks" (clippings)
"Miscellaneous Folder containging Cutjoe Banquantue also known as Cudjo, or Jack Cudjo: letter, notes and Benjamin Coe's will [copy]
"Honoring Hatch Gibson" [Harold Gibson]
Black History Week: pamphlets, booklet (1977, 1980)
Black History Exhibit, "Deep Are Our Roots" (1984) by Newark Public Library, at City Hall
Kenneth A. Gibson pamphlet
"Moorish Science Temple" (copies, of material from the NY Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, gift of J. Teague)
"The Making of a Civil and Human Rights Activist," by Fred E. Means, EdD, a paper delivered at a black history event in 2017, including information on Newark CORE and the Organization of Negro Educators
"The New Jersey Citizen" Newspaper (January 1990, May 1990, February 1991)
"Stuff" Newspaper: Community parties and events (January 1991)
Postcard, "Colored Baptism, Morris Canal, Newark, N.J." (postmarked April 1908)
Slave bill of sale copy scanned
1981 Black History Month Proclamation by Kenneth Gibson
Dates
- 1800s-2017
Conditions Governing Use
Researchers wishing to publish, reproduce, or reprint materials from this collection must obtain permission.
Extent
.42 Linear Feet (1 Hollinger box)
Language of Materials
English
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository
3rd Floor
Newark Public Library
5 Washington St.
Newark NJ 07102 United States
973-733-7775
njreference@npl.org