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Activism -- New Jersey -- Newark

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Hilda A. Hidalgo, PhD - Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-02
Abstract Community activist, LGBT advocate, educator, social worker, and Rutgers professor. Cofounder of both the Experimental Master of Social Work for Bilingual/Bicultural Hispanics and of the Master in Public Administration for Hispanic Administrators at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The bulk of the collection is comprised of academic writings, including numerous articles for publication, monograph manuscripts, a doctoral dissertation, speeches, keynote addresses and case studies....
Dates: circa 1920s - 2010, undated; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1999
Found in: Puerto Rican Community Archives, New Jersey Hispanic Research & Information Center / Hilda A. Hidalgo, PhD - Papers

In Library Use Only: Ironbound Community Corporation Digitized Videos

 Digital Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk ICC
Found in: Van Buren Branch, Newark Public Library

Nancy Zak and Arnold Cohen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Zak-Cohen
Abstract

This collection consists of material from Arnold Cohen and Nancy Zak's careers in community organizing including the Ironbound Airplane Noise Committee, newsletters, photographs, and emphemera. Though there is some overlap this personal material is separate from the Ironbound Community Corporation Collection, part of which exists at Van Buren Branch and the rest of which is set to be archived in 2022.

Dates: c. mid-1970s to 2000s
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / Nancy Zak and Arnold Cohen Collection

Robert Curvin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Curvin-(Main)
Abstract

This collection consists of papers of historian Robert Curvin.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1954-2015, some copies of earlier material
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / Robert Curvin Papers

Sigfredo Carrion Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2014-04
Abstract

Sigfredo Carrion attended Rutgers – Newark, where he co-founded the student organization, Puerto Rican Organization (P.R.O.). He was actively involved as a community activist in Newark, where he served on the People’s Committee, one of the negotiation committees that met with Mayor Gibson at the on-set of the 1974 Newark Puerto Rican riots. The collection consists of 14 photographs of ASPIRA’s lead poisoning screening campaign and clothing drive in 1971.

Dates: 1971
Found in: Puerto Rican Community Archives, New Jersey Hispanic Research & Information Center / Sigfredo Carrion Papers

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
Found in: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library / Yoland Skeete-Laessig Collection

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