Riots -- New Jersey -- Newark

Abstract

This collection contains photos taken by Al Lowe of the Newark Riots in July 1967.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of research or background files and general material relating to the United Community Corporation (UCC) and to the Newark riots of 1967. Boxes 1 and 2, United Community Corporation: contain transcripts of testimony before the City Council's investigating committee; the committee's report; a minority report by Councilman Irvine I. Turner; the full UCC statement in response to the Council's critique; and UCC documents, including statements, by-laws, reports,...

Scope and Contents This collection contains research materials related to the Northwestern University Project on Governmental Responses to Crime led by Dr. Dorothy Guyot. Guyot, at one time an Associate Professor at the School of Criminal Justice of Rutgers University, later became a faculty member at St. John's College, Annapolis, MD. Guyot is the author of "They Say the Commissioner Is Too Lenient" (1977), "Bending Granite: Attempts to Change the Rank Structure of American Police Departments" (1978), and...

Abstract

The Newark Rebellion Collection contains materials relating to the July 1967 civil disturbances in Newark, known as the Newark Riots or Newark Rebellion. The materials includes presentments, reports, affidavits, miscellaneous printed and manuscript items, published articles, fliers, photographs and ephemera.