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Newark African Americans Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG Nwk AF AM-(Main)

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)

"Misc." (Cutjoe Banquantue: letter, notes; 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

"Letters to My Father: A Late Correspondence with Harrison M. Sayre [1894-1935], Founder of My Weekly Reader," by Robert E. Sayre,

"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