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Yoland Skeete-Laessig Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Skeete-Laessig
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of various materials resulting from Yoland Skeete-Laessig’s work on the book “When Newark Had a Chinatown: My Personal Journey”, as well as her fight to save the historical area of Chinatown from being redeveloped as an arena. There is also some material from her career as one of the founders of the art gallery Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Cente.
Dates:
1960-2017, photocopies of earlier material and artifacts from earlier period; Majority of material found within 2000 - 2008
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- Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library 20
- Special Collections, Newark Public Library 1
- Subject
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century 18
- Clippings (information artifacts) 8
- African Americans -- New Jersey -- Newark 7
- Letters (correspondence) 7
- Newark (N.J.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century 6
- Civil rights -- New Jersey -- Newark 4
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 19th century 4
- Reports 4
- Activism -- New Jersey -- Newark 3
- Fliers (printed matter) 3
- New Jersey -- History -- 20th century 3
- Buildings -- New Jersey 2
- Education -- New Jersey -- Newark 2
- Industry -- New Jersey -- Newark 2
- Italian Americans -- New Jersey -- Newark 2
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 21st century 2
- Newsletters 2
- Politicians -- New Jersey -- Newark 2
- Race discrimination -- New Jersey -- Newark 2
- African Americans -- New Jersey 1
- Architecture, Domestic -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Art museums -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Arts -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Audiocassettes 1
- Audiovisual materials 1
- Bank notes – United States – Design 1
- Bridges -- New Jersey 1
- Brochures 1
- Buildings -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- CD-ROMS 1
- Chinatowns -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Chinese -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Churches -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Civil rights workers 1
- Clubs -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- DVDs 1
- Discrimination in employment -- New Jersey 1
- Drawings (visual works) 1
- Durand, Asher Brown, 1796-1886 1
- Electric industry -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Engineers -- Newark -- New Jersey 1
- Engravers – United States 1
- Ethnic groups -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Financial records 1
- German Americans -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Glass plate negatives 1
- Gospel music -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Historic preservation -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Hockey arenas -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Illustrated books 1
- Illustration of books – United States 1
- Italian Americans -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Biographical 1
- Jazz -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Librarians -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Libraries -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
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- Lithographs 1
- Manuscripts (documents) 1
- Maverick family 1
- Maverick, Peter, 1780-1831 1
- Mayors -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Minorities -- Employment -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Minstrel shows 1
- Minutes (administrative records) 1
- Music -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- New York (N.Y.) 1
- Newark (N.J.) 1
- Newark (N.J.) -- Centennial celebrations, etc. 1
- Newark (N.J.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century 1
- Newark Public Library -- History 1
- Numismatics – United States 1
- Paper money design 1
- Photocopies 1
- Police -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Police Brutality -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Poverty -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Press releases 1
- Printmakers – United States 1
- Programs (documents) 1
- Race Discrimination -- New Jersey 1
- Race relations -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Religion -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Riots -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Shoe industry -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Soldiers -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Speeches 1
- Sydenham House (Newark, N.J.) 1
- Texts (documents) 1
- Trade catalogs 1
- Ukranian Americans -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- Women -- New Jersey -- Newark 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 ∧ less
- Language
- Chinese 1
- Names
- Gibson, Kenneth A. 3
- Ashby , William M. (William Mobile), 1889-1991 2
- James, Sharpe, 1936- 2
- Addonizio, Hugh J., 1914-1981 1
- Alford, George, 1924-2000 1
- Alford, Roberta 1
- Alrutz, Thomas J. 1
- Angelo, John, 1922- 1
- Anthony, Daniel S. 1
- Banister, Arthur C. 1
- Banister, Isaac 1
- Banister, James A. , 1831-1906 1
- Banister, James B., 1860-1943 1
- Bodian, Nat G., 1921-2010 1
- Bolden, Marion 1
- Bryan, James E. (James Edmund) 1
- Burch, Mary B. 1
- Byrne, Brendan T., 1924-2018 1
- Congress of Racial Equality (Newark, N.J.) 1
- Cummings, Charles F. 1
- Curvin, Robert 1
- Dana, John Cotton, 1856-1929 1
- Dinkins, David N. 1
- Eldridge, Douglas 1
- Frontiers International 1
- Henderson, Dorland J., 1898-1996 1
- Henderson, Elizabeth Baker 1
- Heningburg, Gus 1
- Hill, Frank P. (Frank Pierce), 1855-1941 1
- James A. Banister Company 1
- Kaiser, John Boynton, 1887-1973 1
- Kean, Thomas H. 1
- Kukla, Barbara J. 1
- Mattia, Peter B., 1869-1953 1
- Mattia, Richard F., 1872-1961 1
- Maverick Family 1
- Maverick, Catharine 1
- Maverick, Peter Rushton 1
- Maverick, Peter, Jr. 1
- Maverick, Samuel 1
- National Urban Coalition (U.S.) 1
- New Jersey. Department of Transportation 1
- Newark (N.J.). Board of Education 1
- Newark Human Rights Commission 1
- Newark Liberty International Airport 1
- Newark Public Library 1
- Norris, Roy E., 1915-1984 1
- Peter Rushton Maverick and Peter Maverick 1
- Scudder Homes (Newark, N.J.) 1
- Shein, Bernard 1
- Skeete-Laessig, Yoland 1
- Spafard, Octavia Maverick 1
- State Prison, Rahway, N.J 1
- Stella Wright Homes (Newark, N.J .) 1
- Stoutenburgh, Emily Maverick 1
- Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Center 1
- Townsend, Maria Ann Maverick 1
- Townsend, William Henry 1
- United Community Corporation (Newark, N.J.) 1
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey 1
- Urban League of Essex County (N.J.) 1
- Urban League of New Jersey 1
- Urban, William L., 1939- 1
- Vogeler, Albert R., 1930-2016 1
- Winser, Beatrice, 1869-1947 1
- Young, Frederick E. 1 ∧ less
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