Activism -- New Jersey -- Newark
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Nancy Zak and Arnold Cohen Collection
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.
Newark Solidarity Coalition Collection
A small collection of 11 born-digital photos of signs and materials used in the Newark Solidarity Coalition pro-Palestine protest in 2024.
Newark Water Coalition Digital Collection
Robert Curvin Papers
This collection consists of papers of historian Robert Curvin.
Sigfredo Carrion Papers
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.
Tri City People's Organization for Progress Collection, Bulk Digitized
Yoland Skeete-Laessig Collection
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.