“Day in the Life of Newark” material , 1987

The collection is valuable for its focus on artistic life and African American Newarkers. It contains poetry by such famous Newark writers as Alma Flagg, Mansa Mussa and Zayid Muhammad (folders 1-2). The bulk of the collection contains paper materials (bulk fliers, programs and invitations) from Urban Voices, an African American poetry group in the Newark area, as well as a few from other Newark events (folders 3- 5, 9, 11-12). Also in the collections is the Urban Voices 1982 publication (folder 6), material from the Theatre of Universal Images (folder 7), and material from a poetry contest Urban Voices hosted at Turtle Back Zoo (folder 8). Lastly, the collection contains material on the “day in the life in Newark” photography project, which culminated in the publication ““Newark, a day in the city” in 1988 (folder 10)