African Americans -- New Jersey -- Newark
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:
Jacob King House Photograph
Digital Image
Identifier: Newark Photos, MG Johnston
Johnny Saxton Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG Nwk Saxton-(offiste)
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of autographed photographs, newspaper clippings, brochures, fliers, medals, plaques, and awards, pertaining to Saxton's boxing career.
Dates:
c. 1947-2008
Krueger-Scott Mansion Cultural Center: African-American Oral History Project
Digital Collection
Identifier: MG KSMCC-OH (Main)
Krueger-Scott Mansion Cultural Center Project Records
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk KSMCC
Dates:
1990 - 1999
Lincoln-Douglass Memorial Association Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG NWK Lincoln-Douglass -(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of fliers, photos, postcards, meeting minutes, receipts, correspondence, and other materials related to the Lincoln-Douglass Memorial Association, an African American political organization.
Dates:
c. 1925-1934
Listings of African Americans from the Newark City Directories
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG Nwk African Americans-(Main)
Scope and Contents
1.) typed transcripts listing African Americans from Newark City Directories (1869-1889), including listings of African-American churches, with their addresses and the names of pastors; listings of African-American schools, with their addresses and names of principals, and teachers; and listings of African-American residents of Newark, with addresses and occupations2.) a typed transcript of the Newark Negro Directory (1889) with content similar to that of the Newark City...
Dates:
1869 - 1889
Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Gibson-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
Box 1: contains 1 folder of copies of 3 personal photographs of Gibson: as a young child with his brother, as a young child with his mother, and in his Army uniform; and 4 folders (ca. 1970-ca. 1980) of mostly black and white, 8" x 10" publicity photographs of Kenneth Gibson, members of his administration, and events in Newark. The bulk of the photographs reflect his official duties. Subjects include ground-breaking, swearing-in, and award ceremonies, and other events; group photographs of...
Dates:
c. 1930s-1986
Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Collection and Publicity Office Photographs
Digital Collection
Identifier: MG Gibson and MG Gibson PO
Dates:
1970 - 1985
New Jersey African Americans Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG NJ AF AM-(Main)
Scope and Contents
Box #1. New Jersey Historical Society (Committee on Afro-American Contribution, meetings 1969-74, Mrs. Vera McMillon speech transcripts, 1969), Moslems (photocopies of newspaper clippings, 1935-ca.1947), Prominent Negroes (Biographical information compiled by South Side H.S. students, 1965: lists, letters, index cards, photocopies of newspaper articles), Misc. (N.A.A.C.P. Montclair 50th Anniversary brochure, NJ Urban League invitation to hear the guest speaker, Charles A. Edison,...
Dates:
1823 - 1994
Newark African American Newspapers
Digital Collection
Identifier: Newark Herald News microfilm
Dates:
1938-1966, incomplete run