The Newark Experience
Note: Dana books with a "NEWARK" call number are available for in-house use from the Dana Library Reference Desk. Non-Dana locations are provided only if the Dana Library does not own a copy of that title. Check IRIS, the Rutgers online catalog, for latest status and the availability of titles at other Rutgers Libraries. The City
Newark Population by Decade: 1900-2000
Newark Neighborhoods Brief overview of each Newark ward, including some historical information.
Newark Landmarks List of Newark sites (historic districts, buildings, parks, cemeteries, and statuary) included on the National and New Jersey Registers of Historic Places.
Newark: Places to Go Art, culture, and recreation centers in Newark.
A Walk Through Newark. [Videorecording] New York, Thirteen/WNET, 2002.
David Hartman and Historian Barry Lewis offer a guided tour of Newark.
Dana Media Call Number: VIDEO 2193The Once and Future Newark. [Videorecording] Newark, Rutgers University, 2006.
Tour of Newark sites chosen for their broad cultural, social and historical significance. Hosted by Dr. Clement Alexander Price.
Dana Media Call Number: DVD 324A Day in the Life of Newark: An Exhibit of Photographs and Accompanying Narratives by Students of the Newark Public Schools Depicting Images Seen Around the City of Newark, New Jersey. Newark, N.J., Newark Public Schools, 2004.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N6D3 2004 [NEWARK plus FOLIO]Old Newark Glen Geisheimer's treasure trove of information on Newark since its inception to the present. "Historical Menu" includes links to photographs (2000+), biographies, business histories, cemetaries, maps, newspaper lists, census information (including lists of orphanage residents), a street and ward index, and indexes to Newark births and marriages. The Your Newark Memories page has over 350 narratives of Newark in former times, while the Newark Immigrants section includes information on the history of Newark's German, Italian, Irish, and Jewish settlers. Searchable.
The late Charles Cummings' "Knowing Newark" columns, which appeared in the Newark Star-Ledger from March 7, 1996 to December 29, 2005, offer a wealth of information on the history, people, events, institutions, customs, and physical environment of Newark.
Fidelity Union Trust Company. Historic Newark: A Collection of the Facts & Traditions About the Most Interesting Sites. Newark, 1916.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N6F45 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Newark in Focus: A Profile from Census 2000. Part 1. Part 2. Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, 2003.
A Living Cities: The National Community Development Initiative databook. Looks at Newark in the context of the 23 cities in the Living Cities group, as well as within the largest 100 cities in the nation. Demographic and economic data pertaining to population, race and ethnicity, immigration, age, households and families, education, work, commuting, income and poverty, and housing.
Library Catalogs
IRIS The online catalog for the Rutgers University Libraries. IRIS includes a significant portion of the Sinclair New Jersey Collection, the most comprehensive collection of New Jersey materials in the state. The Sinclair Collection (IRIS sublocation SNCLNJ) is part of the Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives, located within the Alexander Library on the New Brunswick campus.
Newark Public Library Catalog The Library's New Jersey Information Center has a wealth of materials on New Jersey, Essex County, and Newark. Anyone who lives, works, attends school, or owns property in the City of Newark is entitled to a free Newark Public Library card. The Library Catalog also includes the holdings of the Newark Museum and the New Jersey Historical Society.
New Jersey Historical Society. The New Jersey Historical Society in Newark has a rich collection of archival and other materials relating to the political, social, cultural and economic history of New Jersey. Their book holdings are included in the Newark Public Library Catalog; you can also browse the Finding Aids to NJHS collections.
Finding Articles: Indexes
New Jersey History
The premier journal for articles relating to the history of New Jersey is New Jersey History, formerly (1845-1966) published as the Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. The 1845 to 1995 volumes of this journal are indexed in Periodicals Index Online. Restricted Access
New Jersey History back to 1845 is available in print in Dana.
Most of the 1856 to 1923 volumes of the Proceedings have been scanned and are available from the Universal Library of the Internet Archive. Volumes are available in multiple formats; to change formats select "Details" and then "More Details."
- Vols. 8-10, 1856-1866
- Second Series. Vols. 1-4, 1867-1877
- Second Series. Vol.5-8, 1877-1885
- Scanned as one 742 page document. Patience required!
- Second Series. Vols. 9-11, 1886-1891
- Third Series. Vols. 1-3, 1896-1900
- Third Series. Vols. 4-6, 1901-1910
The University of Michigan has digitized the first volume of the Proceedings:
Other Indexes
Humanities Full Text Humanities Full Text is the basic index for finding articles in the humanities disciplines, including history. It indexes over 550 of the core, English language journals in history, literature, art and music, philosophy and religion. It indexes many journals back to 1984 and, beginning with 1995, includes many full-text articles. Restricted Access.
America: History and Life 1964- . The most comprehensive index to American (U.S. and Canada) history. Indexes over 2000 journals worldwide, as well as book reviews and dissertations. Search Guide available. Restricted Access.
American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900 The full text of articles, advertisements, illustrations etc., from American popular and literary magazines and journals that began publication between 1741 and 1900. Search by author, title, article type, publication title, date, and keywords in the full-text. Restricted Access.
Public Affairs Information Service 1915- Index to books, reports, government documents, and journals dealing with political, social, and public policy issues. Restricted Access
Sociologial Abstracts 1963- Index to approximately 1800 scholarly and professional journals in sociology and related disciplines, as well as to books reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers. Restricted Access
There are many other indexes that may focus more specifically on the aspect of Newark that you are researching. Check out the complete list of Rutgers online indexes and databases.
Newspapers
Read All About It
Today's Star-Ledger plus a fourteen day archive is available online.
Full-text access to the Newark Star-Ledger is available from 1996 to the present on Access World News (Restricted Access) and on Factiva (Restricted Access). The Dana Library has the Newark Star-Ledger on microfilm going back to 1980; microfilm reels back to August 1, 1945 are also available from the Rutgers Alexander Library in New Brunswick. The Newark Public Library also has the Star-Ledger in its entirely (1939 forward) as well as its predecessor, the Newark Star Eagle (1916-1939), available on microfilm.While there is no complete printed or online index to the pre-1989 Star-Ledger, the New Jersey Information Center at the Newark Public Library has the card file Cummings Index to the Star-Ledger from 1971 to 1996, as well as locally compiled Newark News Indexes, 1916-1970.
Ethnic newspapers are a valuable source of information on the lives and concerns of immigrant and ethnic groups. The New Jersey Information Center in the Newark Public Library has a large collection of New Jersey Newspapers on Microfilm which includes a number of ethnic New Jersey newspapers.
History of the Newark Press
Atkinson, Joseph. "The Press of Newark from 1791 to 1878," IN The History of Newark, New Jersey: Being a Narrative of its Rise and Progress, From the Settlement in May, 1666, by Emigrants from Connecticut to the Present Time, Including a Sketch of the Press of Newark, From 1791 to 1878. Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, 2001. Appendix.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6A8 2001Winans, William H. Reminiscences and Experiences in the Life of an Editor. Newark, 1875.
Winans founded the penny Newark Daily Mercury which began publication in December of 1848.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK PN4874 .W758WiLewin, William. A Story of New Jersey Journalism. Newark, N.J., 1928.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK PN4897 .N53L49 1928Siegel, Alan A. For the Glory of the Union: Myth, Reality, and the Media in Civil War New Jersey. Rutherford, N.J., Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984.
Dana Call Number: E521.5 26th.S54 1984 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Leab, Daniel J. Toward Unionization: The Newark Ledger Strike of 1934 35. Labor History 11(1), 3 22, Winter 1970.
The strike by the staff of the Newark Ledger was the first strike against a large circulation daily and the first major action against a newspaper by editorial workers.
Off-Campus Access Restricted AccessEula, Michael. "Ethnicity and Newarks s Italian Tribune, 1934-1980," Italian Americana 19(1), Winter 2001, pp. 23-35.
Alexander: Shelved by TitleWalton, Mary. " The State of the American Newspaper: The Jersey Giant," American Journalism Review 22(8), October 2000, 58-65.
The Star-Ledger's New Jersey Statehouse bureau is the largest in the U.S.
Off-Campus Access Restricted AccessThe Newark News
Eldridge, Douglass. "The Rise and Fall of the 'Newark News,': A Personal Perspective," New Jersey History 104(1/2), Spring/Summer 1986, 37- .
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleReeves, Richard. " Newark's Fallen Giant: Euthanasia or Murder?," Columbia Journalism Review 11(4), November/December 1972, 49-55.
Looks at the circumstances surrounding the demise of the Newark News, the "biggest and best newspaper in New Jersey", which ceased publication in August of 1972.
Off-Campus Access Restricted AccessScudder, Richard B. " 'Newark's Fallen Giant': Untruths, Distortions, Misrepresentations," Columbia Journalism Review 11(6), March/April 1973, 65-67.
Letter to the editor from the former owner/publisher of the Newark News in response to the Reeves article.
Off-Campus Access Restricted AccessEldridge, Douglass. " Newark: A Guild View," Columbia Journalism Review 12(1), May/June 1973, 71.
Letter to the editor responding to Scudder.
Off-Campus Access Restricted AccessWood, Fran. The News is Story Still Worth Telling. February 06, 2008
Report on a panel discussion at the Newark Public Library 36 years after the demise of the News.
William Crawford. Editorial Cartoons, 1954-1962
Manuscript collection. Cartoons published in the Newark News relating to state and local politics, especially in Essex and Hudson counties.
Special Collections Call Number: MC 244
History of Newark
Relevant subject headings that you can use in IRIS include:
Newark (N.J) - History Newark (N.J) - Social Conditions Newark (N.J) - Social Life and Customs General
History of Newark
Overview of Newark history from its founding to the present. Part of a web site developed to accompany Channel 13's presentation of "A Walk Through Newark."Charles F. Cummings, the late Newark City Historian, compiled a year-by-year historical chronology of Newark which appeared as a series of articles published in the Newark Star-Ledger in 2001:
"Newark Begins Storied Past as a Puritan Settlement." January 18, 2001, p.3. [1666-1699] "Eventful 18th Century Saw Town Grow and Prosper." January 25, 2001, p.3. [1700-1734] "Washington Came Here, and British Marauders Too." February 1, 2001, p.3. [1735-1799] "19th Century Was an Age of Auspicious Beginnings and Great Achievements." February 8, 2001, p.3. [1800-1890] "Renaissance Came at End of Turbulent 20th Century." February 15, 2001. p.3 [1900-1929] "Marking Milestones Along City's Path to the Future." February 22, 2001, p.2. [1930-1999] Cunningham, John T. Newark. Third edition. Newark, N. J. : New Jersey Historical Society, 2002.
The basic book on the history of Newark from its founding in 1666 to the first years of the 21st century. Illustrated. pp. 398-399: "Newark in Print."
Dana Call Number: F144.N657C86 2002 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Atkinson, Joseph. The History of Newark, New Jersey: Being a Narrative of its Rise and Progress, From the Settlement in May, 1666, by Emigrants from Connecticut to the Present Time, Including a Sketch of the Press of Newark, From 1791 to 1878. Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, 2001.
Reprint of the first history of Newark published in 1878. Atkinson, himself a journalist (Newark Evening Journal and Newark Free Press), included an Appendix on "The Press of Newark from 1791 to 1878", as well as "Statistics of Newark."
Dana Call Number: F144 .N6A8 2001 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Urquhart, Frank J. et al. A History of the City of Newark, New Jersey: Embracing Practically Two and a Half Centuries, 1666-1913. 3 volumes.
Volume 2 availabe online.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6U8 1913
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6P62Turner, Jean-Rae. Newark. Jean-Rae Turner and Richard T. Koles. Charleston, SC : Arcadia, 2000.
Photographic history of Newark. Part of the "Making of America" series.
Dana Call Number: Ref. Desk 144; F144.N643T87 2000Rice, Arnold S. Newark: A Chronological & Documentary History, 1666-1970.. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Oceana Publications, 1977.
Chronology (17th to 20th century) of important events in the history of Newark with accompanying excerpts from city and state documents, pamphlets, and Newark newspapers.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N657R53 [NEWARK plus STACKS]
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .W89H6Early History
Jacobson, Daniel. "Origin of the Town of Newark," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 75(3), July 1957, 158-169.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleRindler, Edward P. The Migration from the New Haven Colony to Newark, East New Jersey: A Study of Puritan Values and Behavior, 1630-1720. Thesis (Ph.D), University of Pennsylvania, 1977.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6R5 1977aRecords of the Town of Newark, New Jersey, From Its Settlement in 1666 to its Incorporation as a City in 1836. Newark, N.J., New Jersey Historical Society, 1966.
Records of town meetings, 1666 to 1836. Appendix includes lists of office holders up to 1713; transcriptions of early deeds; and the 1713 town charter. Reprint of the 1864 publication.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F131 .N62 v.6Klett, Joseph R. "An Account of East Jersey's Seven Settled Towns, circa 1684," The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 80, September 2005, 106-114.
Ryan, Dennis Patrick. Six Towns: Continuity and Change in Revolutionary New Jersey, 1770-1792. Thesis (Ph.D), New York University, 1974.
Study of six East Jersey towns, Newark, Morristown, Woodbridge, Piscataway, Middletown, and Shrewsbury, during the Revolutionary period.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F138 .R92 1974aFridlington, Robert. "A 'Diversion' in Newark: A Letter From the New Jersey Continental Line, 1778," New Jersey History 105(1/2), 1987, 75-78.
1778 letter by Lieutenant William Barton describing his encounter with a young women in Newark who had disguised herself as a man in order to enlist in the American army.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleNineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Tremante, Louis P. Agriculture and Farm Life in the New York City Region, 1820-1870. Thesis (Ph.D), Iowa State University, 2000.
Focuses on "how rapid urban expansion influenced agriculture and farm life in sixteen counties surrounding and including Manhattan Island."
Dana Call Number: S451 .N56T74 2000a [NEWARK plus STACKS]Hirsch, Susan E. Roots of the American Working Class: The Industrialization of Crafts in Newark, 1800-1860. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK HD8085 .N63H57Ralph, Raymond Michael. From Village to Industrial City: The Urbanization of Newark, New Jersey, 1830-1860. Thesis (Ph.D), New York University, 1978.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N6R34 1978 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Stephenson, Charles. "Class, Culture, and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Newark," IN New Jersey's Ethnic Heritage: Papers Presented at the Eight Annual New Jersey History Symposium, December 4, 1976. Edited by Paul A. Stellhorn. Trenton, New Jersey Historical Commission, 1978, pp.94-132. Also available at
Dana Call Number: Ref. F145 .A1N48 1976Popper, Samuel H. Newark, N.J., 1870-1910: Chapters in the Evolution of an American Metropolis. Thesis (Ph.D.), New York University, 1952.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N6P66 [NEWARK plus STACKS]
Galishoff, Stuart. Newark: The Nation's Unhealthiest City, 1832-1895. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1988.
Public health policy and reform, including the development of a public water supply and sewerage, in 19th century Newark.
Dana Call Number: RA448 .N73G335 1988 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Galishoff, Stuart. Safeguarding the Public Health: Newark, 1895-1918. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1975.
Focuses on the Newark Board of Health and the attempt to comtrol contagious diseases.
Dana Call Number: RA448 .N732G34 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Newark (N.J.). Citizens' Committee. Report on the Social Evil Conditions of Newark, New Jersey, to the People of Newark. Newark, N.J., 1914.
Investigation conducted by the American Vigilance Association during August and December 1913 and January 1914. The American Vigilance Association (later incorporated into the American Social Hygiene Association) worked to 'suppress and prevent commercialized vice, and to promote the highest standard of public and private morals.' Pages 152-170: "Summary and Tables Relative to Professional Prostitutes" in Newark.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK HQ146 .N8Folsom, Joseph F. "Newark's 250th Anniversary Celebration," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. New Series Vol. 1, No. 3, 1916. pp. 113-128; "Additions and Corrections," p. 220.
Newark, N.J., Committee of One Hundred. The Newark Posters Catalogue: Newark, New Jersey, Celebration of 250th Anniversary, 1916. Newark, N.J., Essex Press, 1915.
Catalogue of the traveling exhibit resulting from the poster contest held in conjunction with the 250th anniversary.
Minner, Martin V. Metropolitan Aspirations: Politics and Memory in Progressive Era Newark. Thesis (Ph.D), Indiana University, 2005.
"[F]ocuses on the 250th anniversary celebration held in Newark in 1916 and the range of media and civic events, such as a pageant, parades, poster and poetry contests, an industrial exhibition, statuary, and plans for a memorial building, that marked this civic celebration. The study argues that this massive commemorative event served primarily to promote civic identity, which in turn served a number of political ends."
Dana Call Number: F144.N65M56 2005a [NEWARK plus STACKS]"Newark," IN Merchants Association of Newark, N.J. First Annual Industrial Exposition. May 20-27, 1922, pp. 6-14.
Facts and figures on Newark in the early 1920s. Cover
One of a series of studies of child welfare in New Jersey by the Children's Bureau in 1925. According to the 1920 census, 25 percent of Newark's 14 and 15 year-olds were in the work force. Looks at data relating to termination of school life, occupations, wages, unemployment and steadiness at work.Parsons, Floyd William. New Jersey: Life, Industries and Resources of a Great State. Newark, N.J., New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, 1928.
Includes many Newark references as well as photographs.The Thirties
1930s Newark
A list of books and other materials in the New Jersey Historical Society Library "pertaining to life and people in Newark in the age of the Great Depression."
Stellhorn, Paul A. Depression and Decline, Newark, New Jersey, 1929-1941. Thesis (Ph.D.), Rutgers University, 1982.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N6S73 1982a [NEWARK plus STACKS]Grover, Warren. Nazis in Newark. New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2003.
The Minutemen, a group of boxers and bodyguards from Newark's Third Ward Gang, and the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, led by physician S. William Kalb, led the opposition to Nazi activities and recruitment efforts in Newark between 1933 and 1941. Table of contents available at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy041/2003050772.html.
Dana Call Number: F144.N69G76 2003 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Leab, Daniel J. Toward Unionization: The Newark Ledger Strike of 1934 35. Labor History 11(1), 3 22, Winter 1970.
The strike by the staff of the Newark Ledger was the first strike against a large circulation daily and the first major action against a newspaper by editorial workers.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title Also Available via Business Source Premier Restricted AccessPrice, Clement A. "The Struggle to Desegregate Newark: Black Middle Class Militancy in New Jersey, 1932-1947," New Jersey History 99(3/4), 1981, 215-228.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitlePhotojournalist Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985) worked for the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s, documenting the effects of the economic depression aroung the country.
- Slums, Newark, New Jersey April 1939
- Gardens for the Unemployed, Newark, New Jersey. City Dump ("Jersey Meadows") April 1939
- Gardens for the Unemployed, Newark, New Jersey. Squatters Houses in "Jersey Meadows"(1) April 1939
- Gardens for the Unemployed, Newark, New Jersey. Squatters Houses in "Jersey Meadows" (2) April 1939
World War II
Relevant subject headings that you can use in IRIS include:
World War 1939-1945 World War 1939-1945 - New Jersey World War 1939-1945 - War Work - New Jersey "To the Citizens of Newark"
December 10, 1941 letter from Mayor Vincent J. Murphy on behalf of the Newark Defense Council.Heacock, Nan. Battle Stations! : The Homefront World War II. Ames : Iowa State University Press, 1992.
One woman's experience working in a Newark shipyard during World War II.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ D810.W7H43 1992Women Workers at the Federal Shipyard, Newark, 1943 Photograph.
Housing Authority of the City of Newark. Migrant War Workers in Newark. Newark, 1944.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK HD5726 .N53H6Martucci, William C. To Secure These Rights : A Study of the Political Concerns and Development of the Black Community in Newark, New Jersey, During the Second World War, 1941-1945. Thesis (B.A.), Rutgers University, 1974.
A Henry Rutgers thesis.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ F144.N6M38
The Fifties
Relevant subject headings that you can use in IRIS include:
Nineteen Fifties Schwartz, Richard Alan. The 1950s. New York, Facts on File, 2003.
Topical essay introducing each year, followed by chronicle of events and "Eyewitness Testimony"--excerpts from memoirs, speeches, letters, newspaper accounts, etc. from the period.
Dana Call Number: E169.12 .S385 2003The Unforgettable Fifties: The Newsreels. Marathon Music & Video, 1996. 7 videocassettes.
"A compilation in seven volumes of original newsreels featuring events and personalities of the 1950s. Subjects such as human interest stories, disasters, fashion, and sports, etc., are covered."
Dana Call Number: VIDEO 1204Ortner, Sherry B. New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 2003.
In-depth look at Newark's Weequahic High School class of 1958.
Dana Call Number: HN90.S65O77 2003 [NEWARK plus STACKS]
The Sixties and Beyond
Finding Books The 1960s 1967: The Newark "Riots" Media Coverage Federal and State Investigations Bibliographies Into the 70s Finding Books
Relevant subject headings that you can use in IRIS include:
Nineteen Sixties Nineteen Seventies United States - Social Conditions - 1960-1980 Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 - United States Student Movements - New Jersey African American College Students - Political Activity Riots - New Jersey - Newark The 1960s
Vietnam Era in America
Guide to online and Rutgers resources.Generation Without a Cause. [Videorecording]. Narrated by Walter Cronkite. 1963.
"A study of the values and attitudes of the college youth of the sixties who grew up during years of war, nuclear energy, and prosperity. Part 1 focuses on the majority of the college students using students from Rutgers University as examples; part 2 presents a Rutgers student who is opposed to the conformity and apathy of his generation. Special guests include Senator William Fulbright, Dr. Philip E. Jacob, Dr. Richard McCormick, Dr. Selman Waksman, and poets Robert Frost and John Ciardi."
Media Call Number: VIDEO 2-2436; VIDEO 123United States Commission on Civil Rights. Hearings Before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Newark, New Jersey, September 11-12, 1962. Washington, D.C., 1963.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ F144.N6U5West, Cynthia S'thembile. " Revisiting Female Activism in the 1960s: The Newark Branch of the National of Islam," Black Scholar 26(3/4), 1996, 41-48.
Contrary to the way that they are usually portrayed, women in the Nation of Islam were agents of change in the black Newark community during the 1960s.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted AccessWest, Cynthia. Nation Builders: Female Activism in the Nation of Islam 1960-1970. Thesis (Ph.D), Temple University, 1994.
Dana Call Number: BP221 .Z5N49 1994a [NEWARK plus STACKS]With No One to Help Us
U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity documentary "demonstrating how the formation of a food-buying club by a group of Newark welfare mothers brought about a necessary change in the community."1967: The Newark "Riots"
Media Coverage Federal and State Investigations Bibliographies Levitus, David. Planning, Slum Clearance and the Road to Crisis in Newark.
A NewarkMetro Report. Looks at how Newark politics and policies of the 1940s and 1950s contributed to the conditions that resulted in the riots of 1967.Application to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for a Grant to Plan a Comprehensive City Demonstration Program [Part IA]. April 1967.
Description of Newark submited as part of a Model Cities grant application."Newark: the Predictable Insurrection"
Cover of Life for July 28, 1967.Price, Clement. New Jersey and the Near Collapse of Civic Culture: Reflections on the Summer of 1967
Speech delivered at the Commencement of the Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work, May 14, 2007.The Detroit and Newark Riots of 1967.
Video clips of interviews of witnesses (residents, merchants, militants, police, and members of the National Guard) to the events of the summer of 1967. Includes an introduction to the events leading up to the riots, as well as a bibliography. Created by Dr. Max A. Herman of the Rutgers-Newark Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Oral history of the riots.Revolution '67. [Videorecording]. Bongiorno Productions, 2007.
"Focuses on the explosive urban rebellion which erupted in Newark, New Jersey, in July 1967; a tragedy caused by similar problems that sparked race riots across America. The film takes viewers on a daily chronicle of events, including the calling of the State Police and National Guard, their occupation of the city and use of unnecessary firepower."
Dana Media Call Number: DVD 363[On 40th Anniversary of the Newark Rebellion, A Look Back]
Democracy Now broadcast on July 13, 2007.Herman, Max Arthur. Fighting in the Streets: Ethnic Succession and Urban Unrest in Twentieth-Century America. Peter Lang, 2005.
Comparative analysis of the major incidents of 20th century urban unrest in the U.S., including the 1967 riots in Newark and Detroit.
Dana Call Number: HV6477 .H57 2005 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Scheips, Paul J. "Violence in Newark," IN The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1945-1992. Washington, D.C., Center of Military History, 2005, pp. 173-177.
Dana Call Number: VA25 .S34 2005Hayden, Tom. "The Occupation of Newark," New York Review of Books 9(3), August 24, 1967, 14-24.
Contemporary account of the riots.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleHayden, Tom. Rebellion in Newark: Official Violence and Ghetto Response. New York, Vintage Bookds, 1967.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N6H27 [NEWARK plus STACKS]
Re-issue of journalist Ron Porambo's in-depth study of the riots and their aftermath. Based on extensive interviews. With an new introduction by Warren Slout and an afterward by Fred Bruning.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N6P6 2006 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Porambo, Ron. No Cause for Indictment: An Autopsy of Newark. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK HN79 .N33P6 1971a
New Jersey Historical Society panal discussion. Panel: Fred Bruning, Sally Carrol, Robert Curvin, Danny Schechter, and Leonard Weinglass.Bergesen, Albert. "Race Riots of 1967: An Analysis of Police Violence in Detroit and Newark," Journal of Black Studies 12(3), March 1982, 261-274.
Examines the specific circumstances of death for each person killed during the 1967 Detroit and Newark riots.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted AccessUrban Race Riots. Introduction by Michael R. Belknap. New York, Garland Pub., 1991.
A volume of the Civil Rights, the White House, and the Justice Department, 1945-1968 series. Chronological arrangement of a wide range of documents (memos, letters, speeches, papers) dealing with the Detroit and Newark riots.
Alexander Call Number: F574 .D49N485 1991Paige, Jeffery M. Collective Violence and the Culture of Subordination: A Study of Participants in the July 1967 Riots in Newark, New Jersey, and Detroit, Michigan. Thesis (Ph. D.), University of Michigan, 1968.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK HV6483 .N6P35Paige, Jeffery M. " Political Orientation and Riot Participation," American Sociological Review 36(5), October 1971, 810-820.
Based on a survey of 237 black males in Newark, analyzes the relationship between political trust, political efficacy, and riot participation.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted AccessHerman, Max A. Ethnic Succession and Urban Unrest in Newark and Detroit During the Summer of 1967. Newark, Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies, Rutgers University, July 2002.
Mumford, Kevin J. Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America. New York, New York University Press, 2007.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N6M86 2007 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Ridgeway, James & Casella, Jean. " Newark to New Orleans: The Myth of the Black Sniper," MotherJones, July 16, 2007.
Dockray, Sean Patrick. Containment: The Architecture of the 1967 Newark Riots. 1999.
Using six newspapers as primary sources, Dockray examines the riots from an architectural point of view and concludes that "the rioting only began as such when a series of institutions defined certain actions as a "riot" and launched a complex struggle over the definition of space." Research supported by the Institute for Advanced ArchitectureMedia Coverage
News Articles From the Events of July 1967
Digitized articles from the Newark Evening News July 13-16, 1967. From the Newark Public Library.
Digitized articles from the Newark Star-Ledger July 13-17, 1967. Part of the Ledger's excellent Newark 1967 site.Johnson, Ann Kathleen. Urban Ghetto Riots, 1965-1968: A Comparison of Soviet and American Press Coverage. Thesis (Ph.D), University of Denver, 1994.
Chapter 5 (pp. 178-253) examines coverage of the 1967 Newark and Detroit riots by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Newark Star Ledger, and the Detroit Free Press; Chapter 6 (pp. 254-300) examines the coverage of those riots by Pravda and Izvestiia.
Dana Call Number: PN4888 .R3J64 1994a [NEWARK plus STACKS].Federal and State Investigations
United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Report. Washington, Goverment Printing Office, 1968.
Report of the Commission appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the riots that had occured in Newark and elsewhere in the U.S. Chapter one of what came to be known as the "Kerner Report" consists of "profiles of a selection of the disorders that took place during the summer of 1967. These profiles are designed to indicate how the disorders happened, who participated in them, and how local officials, police forces, and the National Guard responded." A pivotal report in the history of civil rights.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK HV6477 .A56 [New York Times edition: STACKS HV6477 .A56 1968b]Supplemental Studies for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1968.
Includes reports on Racial Attitudes in Fifteen American Cities by Angus Campbell and Howard Schuman; Between Black and White: The Faces of American Institutions in the Ghetto by Peter H. Rossi et al.; and Who Riots? A Study of Participation in the 1967 Riots by Robert M. Fogelson and Robert B. Hill.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK HV6477 .A56 Suppl.Racial Attitudes in Fifteen American Cities: 1968
Data files and documentation used in the study above. 2nd ICPSR version.
Off-Campus Access Restricted Access
Video and transcript. Includes an interview with Fred Harris, one of the last living members of the original Kerner Commission.New Jersey. Governor's Select Commission on Civil Disorder. Report for Action: An Investigation into the Causes and Events of the 1967 Newark Race Riots. New York, Lemma Pub. Corp., 1972.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK HN79 .N33A54 1972Parks, Brad. 40 years after the riots: A landmark report, ignored
A Star-Ledger Perspective.Bibliographies
Lewis, James. Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the 1967 Newark Riots: Selected Reference Resources of the Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center at the Newark Public Library. July 2007.
Nettleton, Jesse (Compiler). 40th Anniversary of the 1967 Newark Riots Bibliography.
Into the 70s
Groh, George W. "Profile of a Ghetto," IN The Black Migration: The Journey to Urban America. New York, Weybright and Talley, 1972. Chapter 8, pp.157-248.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK E185.8 .G86Brooks, Thomas R. "Breakdown in Newark," Dissent 19(1), Winter 1972, 128-137. Reprinted in: The World of the Blue-Collar Worker. Edited by Irving Howe. New York, Quadrangle Books, 1972, pp. 105-119.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title/NEWARK HD8072 .H88 1972From Riot to Recovery : Newark After Ten Years. Compiled and edited by Stanley B. Winters. Washington : University Press of America, c1979.
Dana Call Number: HN80.N6F7 [NEWARK Plus STACKS]
Government and Politics
Municipal Government Political Life Early History 1900-1950s Turbulent Times: The 1960s and Beyond Amiri Baraka and the Black Power Movement in Newark Leading the City: The Mayors Kenneth Gibson Sharpe James The 2002 Mayoral Election The 2006 Mayoral Election Cory Booker The City and the Community Municipal Government
Wolfe, Albert J. A History of Municipal Government in New Jersey Since 1798.
Records of the Town of Newark, New Jersey, From Its Settlement in 1666 to its Incorporation as a City in 1836. Newark, N.J., New Jersey Historical Society, 1966.
Records of town meetings, 1666 to 1836. Appendix includes lists of office holders up to 1713; transcriptions of early deeds; and the 1713 town charter.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F131 .N62 v.6Bates, Frank G. " Municipal Charter Revision: Newark," American Political Science Review 5(3), August 1911, 438-440.
Describes a proposed city charter that was presented to the New Jersey legislature in 1911.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted AccessNewark (N.J.). Board of Commissioners. Minutes of Meetings of the Board of Commissioners of Newark, N.J.
Minutes from 1937-1940; 1943-1945; and 1954. [Note: Alexander has 1922; 1928-1954 at Doc JS13.N525p]
Dana Call Number: NEWARK JS13 .N525pWinters, Stanley B. "Charter Change and Civic Reform in Newark, 1953-1954," New Jersey History 118(1/2), 2000, 34-65.
Reformers hoped that a change from the five-member board of commissioners established by the 1917 city charter to a mayor-council form of government would would lead to an overhaul of a graft-ridden administration, halt the city's neglect, and keep businesses and the middle-class in Newark.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleFinal Report of the Charter Commission of the City of Newark. Newark, N.J., 1953.
The Charter Commission found that "For more than three decades, municipal government in Newark has proved to be wasteful, extravagant, uncoordinated and not responsive to the basic need of our city...A major cause of poor government in Newark has been the commission form by which our city has been governed since 1917." Recommended that the commission form of government be abandoned and that Newark adopt the Mayor-Council Plan C, as set forth in Article 5 of the Optional Municipal Charter Law.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK JS1242 .A15 1953Form of Municipal Government
"Effective as of July 1, 1954, the voters of the city of Newark, by a referendum held on November 3, 1953 and acting pursuant to the Optional Municipal Charter Law (R.S. 40:69A-1 et seq.), commonly known as the Faulkner Act, adopted Mayor-Council Plan C as the form of local government. "Dubowsky, Hy L. An Exploration of Legislative Performance in Three Northeastern Cities. Thesis (Ph.D), New York University, 1995.
Using existing models of state legislative reform, examines three big city councils (Newark, New York, and Philadelphia) in terms of reform and performance.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ JS371 .D83 1995a
Revised General Ordinances of the City of Newark
2000, Amended through December 31, 2007. Includes the City Charter.2006 Newark Management and Financial Plan
The 2006 municipal budget.Newark Municipal Year Book.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6A3 1950/51; 1952/53Newark City Organization Chart
Political Life
Early History 1900-1950s Turbulent Times: The 1960s and Beyond Early History
Ryan, Dennis Patrick. Six Towns: Continuity and Change in Revolutionary New Jersey, 1770-1792. Thesis (Ph.D), New York University, 1974.
Study of six East Jersey towns, Newark, Morristown, Woodbridge, Piscataway, Middletown, and Shrewsbury, during the Revolutionary period.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F138 .R92 1974aSponzilli, Edward G. Newark, New Jersey, During the American Civil War: A Study in Loyalty and Disloyalty. Thesis (B.A.), Rutgers University, 1971.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ F144 .N6876Crofts, Daniel W. "Re-electing Lincoln: The Struggle in Newark," Civil War History 30(1), 1984, 54-79.
Republican Party preparations in Newark for the 1864 election.
Dana Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title.1900-1950s
Buenker, John D. "Urban, New-Stock Liberalism and Progressive Reform in New Jersey," New Jersey History 87(2), Summer 1969, 79-104.
Looks at New Jersey Assembly members, especially those from Newark and Jersey City, from 1907-1914 to illustrate the role of urban new-stock politicians in the Progressive movement.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleMinner, Martin V. Metropolitan Aspirations: Politics and Memory in Progressive Era Newark. Thesis (Ph.D), Indiana University, 2005.
"[F]ocuses on the 250th anniversary celebration held in Newark in 1916 and the range of media and civic events, such as a pageant, parades, poster and poetry contests, an industrial exhibition, statuary, and plans for a memorial building, that marked this civic celebration. The study argues that this massive commemorative event served primarily to promote civic identity, which in turn served a number of political ends."
Dana Call Number: F144 .N65M56 2005a [NEWARK plus STACKS]Parnell, Reg. I Am A Newark Citizen: Being a Series of Addresses. Newark, Lackawanna Press, 1934.
Addresses delivered by Reginald Parnell, Newark's Director of Revenue and Finance, over radio station WGCP.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ F144 .N6P37 1934Levitus, David. Planning, Slum Clearance and the Road to Crisis in Newark.
A NewarkMetro Report. Looks at how Newark politics and policies of the 1940s and 1950s contributed to the conditions that resulted in the riots of 1967.Turbulent Times: The 1960s and Beyond
"This dissertation explores the enduring conflicts over race, federalism, and local self-determination in postwar U.S. cities through the experience of Newark, New Jersey... Newark's residents and their suburban neighbors mounted imaginative challenges to the city's decline, many of which resonated nationally among policymakers and residents of similarly distressed cities."
Dana Call Number: In Process [NEWARK plus STACKS]Kaplan, Harold. Urban Renewal Politics: Slum Clearance in Newark. New York, N.Y., Columbia University, 1963.
Focuses on the Newark Housing Authority and how they launched nine slum projects during the first 10 years of Title 1 of the 1949 Federal Housing Act. Looks at urban renewal as a political process.
Dana Call Number: HT177 .N54K2 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Gerwin, David Milton. The End of Coalition: The Failure of Community Organizing in Newark in the 1960s. Thesis (Ph.D), Columbia University, 1998.
Looks at how the dynamic of urban decline defeated attempts to organize traditional neighborhood-based groups and organized labor into a coalition under the Newark Community Union Project, one of ten community organizing projects sponsored by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1963-64.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N6G47 1998a [NEWARK plus STACKS]O'Shea, John. "Newark: Negroes Move Toward Power," The Atlantic 216(5), November 1965, 90-92, 97-98.
"Newark, the state's wealthiest and most influential city, is now in transition from white to Negro political control."
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleKrickus, Richard J. "Organizing Neighborhoods: Gary and Newark," Dissent 19(1), 1972, 107-117. Reprinted in: The World of the Blue-Collar Worker. Edited by Irving Howe. New York, Quadrangle Books, 1972, pp. 72-88.
Focuses on Steve Adubato's successful campaign for district leadership in Newark's Italian North Ward against the Democratic party machine.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title/NEWARK HD8072 .H88 1972Mikell, Gwendolyn. "Class and Ethnic Political Relations in Newark, New Jersey: Blacks and Italians," IN Cities of the United States: Studies in Urban Anthropology. Edited by Leith Mullings. New York, Columbia University Press, 1987, pp. 71-98.
"A case study of Newark, New Jersey, where ethnic conflict, characteristic of the late 1960s and early 1970s, has its roots in the historical class development and in interethnic relations since 1900. As economic conditions changed in the mid-1970s, allowing for the penetration of professionals into public and private bureaucracies, the competition between blacks and Italians was tempered."
Dana Call Number: HT123 .C4968 1987Guyot, Dorothy H. "Newark, Crime and Politics in a Declining City," IN Crime in City Politics. Edited by Anne Heinz, Herbert Jacob, Robert L. Lineberry. New York, Longman, 1983, pp. 23-96.
Newark Law Call Number: HV6789 .C693 1983 [Also Criminal Justice]Amiri Baraka and the Black Power Movement in Newark
Baraka, Imamu Amiri. New Era in Our Politics: The Revolutionary Answer to Neo-Colonialism in NewArk Politics. 1970. 18 pp.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 E185.615 .J656 1970zWoodard, Komozi. The Making of the New Ark: Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), the Newark Congress of African People, and the Modern Black Convention Movement: A History of the Black Revolt and the New Nationalism, 1966-1976. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1991.
Dana Call Number: E185.615 .W91 1991a [NEWARK plus STACKS]Woodard, Komozi. A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Examines the black power movement of the 1960s and 1970s as exemplified by the Modern Black Convention Movement led by Amiri Baraka. In Newark, this movement led to the development of a number of organizations, including the Committee for a Unified NewArk (CFUN), which later became the Newark chapter of the Congress of African People (CAP). Documents the black and Puerto Rican alliance that led to the election of Newark's first black mayor, Kenneth Gibson, in 1970.
Dana Call Number: E185.97 .B23W66 1999 [NEWARK and STACKS]Axios, Costas and Syvriotis, Nikos. Papa Doc Baraka: Fascism in Newark. Including a special appendix: "Why the CIA Often Succeeds" by Hermyle Golthier. New York, National Caucus of Labor Committees, 1973.
Part of Lyndon LaRouche's National Caucus of Labor Committees' anti-Baraka campaign. The NCLC was convinced that Baraka was a CIA agent. Cover graphic.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK JS1242.2 .A8A95 1973Leading the City: The Mayors
Newark Mayors
Chronological list of Newark mayors from William Halsey (1836-1837) to Cory Booker (2006- ).Brooks, S.C. and Lineberry, R.L. "Politicians and Urban Policy Change," IN Urban Policy Analysis: Directions for Future Research. Edited by Terry Nichols Clark. Beverly Hills, Sage Publications, 1981.
Focuses on police services in Newark and Philadelphia and the correlation between mayoral elections and crime data.
Alexander Call Number: HT108 .U7 v.21Rich, Wilbur C. Black Mayors and School Politics: The Failure of Reform in Detroit, Gary, and Newark. New York, Garland, 1996.
Analyzes the roles played by black mayors and black politicians in relation to school policies and attempted reforms in Detroit, Gary, and Newark. Finds that neither black nor white political power is sufficient to overcome the power of the "public school cartel" (administrators, school board members, professional educators, and teacher union leaders) which controls school policy-making in large city school districts.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK LC90 .M5R53 1996Kenneth Gibson
Zelnick, C Robert. "Gibson of Newark," City: Magazine of Urban Life and Environment 6, January/February 1972, 10-22.
Robeson (Camden) Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleBarbaro, Fred. "Newark: Political Brokers," Society 9(10), 1972, 42-47; 50-54.
The election of Kenneth Gibson as Newark's first black mayor within the framework of Newark's political history 1960-1972.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleTryman, Mfanya D. " Black Mayorality Campaigns: Running the 'Race'," Phylon 35(4), December 1974, 346-358.
Looks at the factors that resulted in the election of Carl Stokes in Cleveland, Richard Hatcher in Gary, and Kenneth Gibson in Newark.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted AccessCurvin, Robert. The Persistent Minority: The Black Political Experience in Newark. Thesis (Ph.D), Princeton University, 1975.
Looks at Kenneth Gibson's first term as Newark mayor (1970-1974); concludes that "the lack of substantial change during Gibson's first term is rooted in economic, political, and social structure that operates to protect the status quo, the wealth of the already affluent, and the position and control of those already in power...More specifically, this study attempts to show how a pluralistic society works, over time, to thwart the goals of an oppressed group, even when it becomes a 'majority' in a given jurisdiction."
Dana Call Number: F144 .N6C95 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Johnson, Willa. Illusions of Power: Gibson's Impact Upon Employment Conditions in Newark, 1970-1974. Thesis (Ph.D), Rutgers University, 1978.
Attempts "to determine to what degree, if any, the presence of a Black mayor has improved the conditions of the people of Newark during the years 1970-1974." Finds that the election of a Black mayor does not change the basic power relationships within a city and is no panacea to problems of poverty and unemployment
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6J7A 1978aYatrakis, Kathryn B., Electoral Demands and Political Benefits: Minority as Majority: A Case Study of Two Mayoral Elections in Newark, New Jersey, 1970, 1974. Thesis (Ph.D), Columbia University, 1981. View Abstract
Dana Call Number: NEWARK JS1242 .Y37 1981aSharpe James
Harris, Kirk Edward. The Paradox of African-American Mayoral Leadership and the Persistence of Poverty in the African-American Community. Thesis (Ph.D), Cornell University, 1992.
"This study explores Black mayoral governance in the context of historical and political episodes which shape not only this leadership's governing tendencies but its fundamental relationship with the Black community." Utilizes three detailed case studies of three black mayors: Kurt Schmoke of Baltimore; W. Wilson Goode of Philadelphia; and Sharpe James of Newark.
Dana Call Number: E185.615 .H37 1992a [NEWARK plus STACKS]The 2002 Mayoral Election
Street Fight [Videorecording]. Oley, PA, Bullfrog Films, 2005.
"Follows the 2002 race for Mayor of Newark, N.J. between 32 year-old Cory Booker and four-term incumbent Sharpe James." Written, directed, and produced by Marshall Curry.
Dana Call Number: MEDIA DVD 321" The Good and the Lucky, " The Economist 362 (8267), April 6, 2002, p.28
Report on the upcoming (May 2002) mayoral election in Newark.
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted AccessKraus, Jeffrey. "Generational Conflict in Urban Politics: the 2002 Newark Mayoral Election," Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics 2(3), 2004, Article 7.
The 2002 mayoral election between incumbent Sharpe James and challenger Cory Booker is part of a new trend in contemporary politics: a contest between an older African-American incumbent and a younger African-American politician. Concludes that the younger--and generally more moderate--politicians have difficulty winning support from older African-American voters.
Off-Campus Access. Rutgers-restricted AccessThe 2006 Mayoral Election
Newark 2006: The Race for Mayor
New York Times blog.Cory Booker
Booker, Cory. 100 Day Plan Report. October 2006.
The first 100 days of the Booker administration--public safety, economic development, nurturing families and children, and government reform.CBS 2: 1-On-1 with Newark Mayor Cory Booker (Pt.1)
Interview with Booker one year after he took office. Broadcast June 11, 2007CBS 2: 1-On-1 with Newark Mayor Cory Booker (Pt.2)
Broadcast June 12, 2007Bill Moyers Journal: Mayor Cory Booker of Newark
Video and transcript. March 28, 2008.The City and the Community
"This dissertation explores the enduring conflicts over race, federalism, and local self-determination in postwar U.S. cities through the experience of Newark, New Jersey... Newark's residents and their suburban neighbors mounted imaginative challenges to the city's decline, many of which resonated nationally among policymakers and residents of similarly distressed cities."
Dana Call Number: In Process [NEWARK plus STACKS]Gwyn, William B. Barriers to Establishing Urban Ombudsmen: The Case of Newark. Berkeley, University of California Institute of Governmental Studies, 1974.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK JS1242.4 .A4 1974Gillespie, Andra Nicole. Community Coordination and Context: A Black Politics Perspective on Voter Mobilization. Thesis (Ph.D), Yale University, 2005.
Analyzes voter mobilization campaigns in Newark, Detroit, and Atlanta.
Dana Call Number: E185 .G5 2005 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Schulgasser, Daniel M. " Making Something Out of Almost Nothing: Social Capital Development in Newark, New Jersey's Enterprise Community," National Civic Review 88(4), Winter 1999, 341-50.
In December 1994 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) designated Newark as an Enterprise Community (EC). Study assesses "the degree to which the development of networks of civic engagement in Newark has been augmented by the EC program."
Off Campus Access Rutgers-restricted AccessStevenson, Jason Reich. The Fire This Time: Development Conflict in Rebuilding Newark, New Jersey. Thesis (B.A.), Harvard College, 2000.
Examines the controversies surrounding recent economic development projects in Newark and the subsequent breakdown in relations between City Hall and community groups. Focuses on a proposal to build a sports arena on top of what is currently a residential neighborhood.Stevenson, Jason Reich. "Arena Politics in Newark," Shelterforce May/June 2004.
Another sports arena controversy.Santora, Joseph C. An Historical Case Study of Community Interorganizational Alliances in Newark, New Jersey. Thesis (Ed.D), Fordham University, 1981.
Analyzes the interactions between two Newark grass-roots community organizations, the North Ward Educational and Cultural Center and the LEAGUERS.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ F144 .N6S26 1981aMathur, Navdeep. Urban Revitalization and Participatory Governance: A Discursive Analysis of Policy Deliberation in Newark. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers University, Newark, 2005.
"This study situates the Newark experience within a competing set of policy discourses i.e. policy institutions, developmental processes and political practices to analyze how powerful public and private actors play a dominant role in this 'Revitalization', while effectively excluding the voices and involvement of communities of residents impacted by it."
Dana Call Number: HT .M432 2005 [NEWARK plus STACKS]
Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access
The People: Everyone Comes From Somewhere
General Resources Ethnic Groups Germans Italians Jews African Americans Chinese Portuguese Hispanics Other Ethnic Groups General Resources
Subject headings that you can use to search IRIS include:
Immigrants - United States United States - Emigration and Immigration European Americans Immigrants - New Jersey Children of Immigrants Assimilation (Sociology) Martin, Philip and Midgley, Elizabeth, "Immigration: Shaping and Reshaping America". Population Bulletin 58(2), June, 2003. [Entire Issue].
Encyclopedia of American Immigration. James Ciment, Immanuel Ness, editors. Armonk, N.Y., M.E. Sharpe, 2000. 4 vols.
Immigration history; immigration issues (causes, demographics, acculturation, laws and legislation, politics, economics, etc.); immigrant groups; and immigration documents (laws, treaties, court cases, reports, etc.).
Dana Call Number: Ref. JV6465.E53 2000Reference Library of European America. Detroit, Gale Research, 1999. 4 vols.
Vols 1 and 2 consist of essays describing the experiences of European immigrant groups in America (settlement patterns, acculturation and assimilation, language, family and community dynamics, and religion). Vols 3 and 4 describe the homeland countries.
Dana Call Number: Ref. E184.E95398 1999We the People: An Atlas of America's Ethnic Diversity. By James Paul Allen and Eugene James Turner. New York, Macmillan, 1988.
Data based on the 1980 Census, this atlas maps the geographical patterns of 67 ethnic and racial groups in the US
Dana Call Number: Ref. E184.A1A479 1988Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Edited by Stephan Thernstrom. Cambridge, Mass., Belnap Press, 1980.
"A guide to the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of the more than 100 ethnic groups who live in the United States."
Dana Call Number: Ref. E184.A1H35Shaw, Douglas V. Immigration and Ethnicity in New Jersey History. Trenton, N.J., New Jersey Historical Commission, Dept. of State, c1994.
Dana Call Number: DocNJ JV7037.S53 1994Vecoli, Rudoph J. The People of New Jersey. Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand, 1965.
Seminal general study of the ethnic groups that migrated to New Jersey from colonial times to the 1960s.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ HB3525.N5V4The New Jersey Ethnic Experience. Edited by Barbara Cunningham. Union City, N.J. : W. H. Wise, 1977.
Essays on 31 ethnic groups in New Jersey.
Dana Call Number: F145.A1N47Cohen, David Steven. New Jersey Ethnic History : A Bibliography. Trenton, NJ : New Jersey Historical Commission, Dept. of State, 1986.
Dana Call Number: Ref. Z1313.C63 1986Stephenson, Charles. "Class, Culture, and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Newark," IN New Jersey's Ethnic Heritage: Papers Presented at the Eight Annual New Jersey History Symposium, December 4, 1976. Edited by Paul A. Stellhorn. Trenton, New Jersey Historical Commission, 1978, pp.94-132. Also available at
Dana Call Number: Ref. F145 .A1N48 1976GERMANS
Subject headings that you can use to search IRIS include:
Germans - New Jersey Germans - New Jersey - Newark German Americans - New Jersey German Americans - New Jersey - Newark Chambers, Theodore Frelinghuysen. The Early Germans of New Jersey: Their History, Churches, and Genealogies. Dover, N.J., Dover Printing Company, 1895.
Dana Call Number: F145 .G3C4Von Katzler, William. "The Germans in Newark," IN Urquhart, Frank J. A History of the City of Newark, New Jersey Embracing Practically Two and a Half Centuries 1666-1913. New York, Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913. Vol.2, pp. 1021-1125.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6U8 1913Levine, Bruce C. "Immigrant Workers, 'Equal Rights,' and Anti-Slavery: The Germans of Newark, New Jersey," Labor History 25(1), 1984, 26-52.
German immigrant workers in Newark took the lead in opposing the proslavery Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleRalph, Raymond M. "The City and the Church: Catholic Beginnings in Newark, 1840-1870," New Jersey History 96(3/4), 1978, 105-118.
In the mid-19th century Catholics, primarily Irish and German immigrants, constituted one of Newark's largest religious groups.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleITALIANS
Subject headings that you can use to search IRIS include:
Italians - New Jersey Italians - New Jersey - Newark Italian Americans - New Jersey Italain Americans - New Jersey - Newark Starr, Dennis J. The Italians of New Jersey : A Historical Introduction and Bibliography Newark, New Jersey Historical Society, 1985.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ F131.N532HC v.20Tardi, Susanna. Family and Society : The Case of the Italians in New Jersey. Thesis (Ph.D), New York University, 1989.
"Analyzes the extent to which first, second and third generation, working-class and middle-class Italian Americans living in contemporary American society have maintained the norms, values and behavioral patterns of traditional Italian core culture."
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ F145.I8T37 1989Carlevale, Joseph William. Americans of Italian descent in New Jersey. Foreword by Robert C. Clothier. Clifton, N. J., Printed by North Jersey Press [1950].
Dana Call Number: Ref. F145.I8C3Eula, Michael J. Between Peasant and Urban Villager : Italian Americans of New Jersey and New York, 1880-1980: The structure of counter-discourse New York, P.Lang, 1993.
A cultural history of the Italian-American working class.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F145.I8E9 1993Italian Christian Endeavor Group, Newark, 1896. William Cone photograph.
Immerso, Michael. Newark's Little Italy : The Vanished First Ward. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press c1997.
"Traces the history of the First Ward from the arrival of the first Italian in the 1870s until 1953 when the district was uprooted to make way for urban renewal."
. Dana Call Number: F144.N66L55 1997 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Newark's Little Italy: The Vanished First Ward [Videorecording]. Bloomfield, N.J., Caucus Educational Corp., 1997.
"An historical documentary that celebrates the people and traditions of Newark's old First Ward." Written by Michael Immerso, narrated by Steve Adubato, Jr.
Dana Call Number: MEDIA Video 2180Churchill, Charles Wesley. The Italians of Newark, A Community Study. New York, Arno Press, 1975.
Reprint of the author's 1942 thesis (New York University). Based on interviews with about 700 Italians, approximately half of whom were born in Italy, between March 1938 and August 1939. Focus on Italian-American family and community life in Newark during this period.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144.N6C5 1975Eula, Michael. "Ethnicity and Newarks s Italian Tribune, 1934-1980," Italian Americana 19(1), Winter 2001, pp. 23-35.
Alexander: Shelved by TitleFlock, Patricia C. The Italians in Newark 1890-1914. Thesis (B.A.), St. Peter's College, 1976.
Social history focusing on the principal institutions (municipal agencies, churches) with which the Italian immigrants came in contact.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ F144.N6F62Miles, Fred Ensign. The Italians of Newark, New Jersey. Thesis (M.A.), Columbia University, 1926.
Miles was the minister of a Protestant church located in the middle of the Italian section of Newark.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ F144.N6M64Courtney, Marion L. Employment Practices in Selected Retail Stores. Trenton, New Jersey Department of Education, Division Against Discrimination, December 1956.
Survey of sixty-four retail stores in Newark, East Orange, Montclair, Bloomfield, Paterson, Passaic, Elizabeth, Plainfield, Trenton, Camden and Atlantic City. Focuses on minority, especially African-American, employment but also includes statistics on the employment of Jews and Italian-Americans.Shipler, David K. " The White Niggers of Newark," Harper's Magazine 245(1467), August 1972, 77-83.
View of North Ward Italians on their situation in Newark in the early 1970s.
Off-Campus Access Restricted AccessMikell, Gwendolyn. "Class and Ethnic Political Relations in Newark, New Jersey: Blacks and Italians," IN Cities of the United States: Studies in Urban Anthropology. Edited by Leith Mullings. New York, Columbia University Press, 1987, pp. 71-98.
"A case study of Newark, New Jersey, where ethnic conflict, characteristic of the late 1960s and early 1970s, has its roots in the historical class development and in interethnic relations since 1900. As economic conditions changed in the mid-1970s, allowing for the penetration of professionals into public and private bureaucracies, the competition between blacks and Italians was tempered."
Dana Call Number: HT123 .C4968 1987Testa, James Anthony. The Italians of Newark: The Process of Economic Victory and Social Retreat 1910-1940. Thesis (B.A.), Princeton University, 1970.
An "attempt to view immigrant adaption to the urban environment by examining changing patterns and status in the job market."
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ F144.N6T34Bolen, William J. E. The Changing Geography of Italian Immigrants in the United States : A Case Study of the Ironbound Colony, Newark, New Jersey. Thesis (Ph.D), Rutgers University, 1986.
The impact of Italian immigrants on transforming the cultural landscape, and a detalied analysis of the Italian Ironbound colony in Newark at the turn of the 20th century.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ E.B688 1986 [Dana copy On Order]JEWS
Subject headings that you can use to search IRIS include:
Jews - New Jersey Jews - New Jersey - History Jews - New Jersey - Newark Patt, Ruth Marcus. New Jersey Jewish History: A Bibliographic Guide. New Brunswick, N.J., Jewish Historical Society of Central Jersey, 1987.
Dana Call Number: F145.J5.P32 1987Ard, Patricia M. The Jews of New Jersey : A Pictorial History. Patricia M. Ard and Michael Aaron Rockland. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2002.
Chapter 2 [pp. 10-24]: "Newark: A Community Flourishes."
Dana Call Number: F145.J5.A74 2002Jewish Education Association of Essex County (N.J.). The Essex Story: A History of the Jewish Community in Essex County, New Jersey. Newark, N.J., 1955.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F142.E8J4Helmreich, William B. The Enduring Community : the Jews of Newark and MetroWest. New Brunswick, N.J., Transaction Publishers, c1999.
The basic book on the history of Jews in Newark.
Dana Call Number: F144.N69J54 1999 [NEWARK plus STACKS]
Part of the "Images of America" series.
Dana Call Number: IN PROCESSBennett, Jeffrey. Hopewell Baptist Church/Temple B'nai Jeshurun
History of Temple B'nai Jeshurun, the Newark's first synagogue.Raichle, Donald R. "The Great Newark School Strike of 1912," New Jersey History 106(1/2), 1988, 1-17.
In 1912 students of the Morton Street School and the Charlton Street School went on strike as a result of anti-Semitic remarks and behavior on the part of some teachers.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleDavis, Marni. "On The Side of Liquor": American Jews and the Politics of Alcohol, 1870-1936. Thesis (Ph.D), Emory University, 2006.
"This dissertation examines the Jewish experience in the American alcohol trade between 1870 and 1936, and considers the specific social, economic, and political issues brought to bear by Jewish involvement in an increasingly controversial sector of the American economy...Drawing on a wide range of archival, published, and genealogical sources, [maps] Jewish participation in local alcohol production and purveyance in Newark, New Jersey; Cincinnati, Ohio; Louisville, Kentucky; and Atlanta, Georgia."
Dana Call Number: HV5185 .D38 2006a [NEWARK plus STACKS]Cowen, David L. "A Commentary: The Jewish Experience in Newark," New Jersey History 122(1-2), Spring/Summer 2004, pp. 68-72.
Discuses two occupations that had special appeal to the Jews in the Newark area in the first quarter of the 20th century--saloon keeping and pharmacy.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleUnterman, Isaac. Newark Jewry: A History of the Jews of Newark, Their Institutions and Leading Personalities. Newark, N.J., 1939 [c1934]. 2 vols.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ F144.N6U5Gould, Alice Perkins. The Old Jewish Cemeteries of Newark. Bergenfield, N.J., Avotaynu, 2004.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N69J538 2004 [NEWARK plus STACKS]National Council of Jewish Women. Newark Section. Committee of Service for Foreign Born. Six Years' Study of Work of Committee of Service for Foreign Born
Documents the changing nature of the work of the Committee as a result of the influx of German Jewish immigrants between 1930 and 1936.Grover, Warren. Nazis in Newark. New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2003.
The Minutemen, a group of boxers and bodyguards from Newark's Third Ward Gang, and the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, led by physician S. William Kalb, led the opposition to Nazi activities and recruitment efforts in Newark between 1933 and 1941. Table of contents available at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy041/2003050772.html.
Dana Call Number: F144.N69G76 2003 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. Jewish Coummunity Organization in Newark and Essex County. New York, 1945.
Pt.1: The Jewish Population of Essex County. Pt.2: The Jewish Center Program of Essex County.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6C68Report of the Survey Committee on Jewish Education, Group Work, and Jewish Population. Newark, Jewish Community Council of Essex County, 1948. 2 vols.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F142 .E8739 1948bShapiro, Edward S. "Ethnicity and Employment: The Early Years of the Jewish Vocational Service of Newark, 1939-52," New Jersey History 106(1/2), 1988, 18-39.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleShapiro, Edward S. "The Jewish Vocational Service of Newark, New Jersey, 1950-1980," American Jewish Archives 56(1-2), 2004, 37-56.
Alexander Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleCourtney, Marion L. Employment Practices in Selected Retail Stores. Trenton, New Jersey Department of Education, Division Against Discrimination, December 1956.
Survey of sixty-four retail stores in Newark, East Orange, Montclair, Bloomfield, Paterson, Passaic, Elizabeth, Plainfield, Trenton, Camden and Atlantic City. Focuses on minority, especially African-American, employment but also includes statistics on the employment of Jews and Italian-Americans.Lasting Impressions : Greater Newark's Jewish Legacy. An exhibition in the galleries of the Newark Public Library, April 24, 1995-July 3, 1995. With an historical essay on the Jewish Community in Newark by Ronald L. Becker. Newark, N.J. : Newark Public Library, [1995]
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F145.J5D17 1995Ortner, Sherry B. New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 2003.
In-depth look at Newark's predominantly Jewish Weequahic High School class of 1958, their high school experiences, and subsequent lives.
Dana Call Number: HN90.S65O77 2003 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Price, Clement Alexander. Blacks and Jews in the City of Opportunity : Newark, New Jersey, 1900-1967. 1994.
Paper presented at the Jewish Historical Society of Metrowest on June 13, 1994.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 F144.N6P75 1994Goldblatt, Roy. "The Whitening of the Jews and the Changing Face of Newark," Philip Roth Studies 2(2), Fall 2006, 86-101
Goldblatt looks to "analyze the change in the ethnoracial position of Philip Roth's Newark Jews, their shift from Other to in-between and later to white, and then describe the changes that occurred in the city itself, or how a Jewish ghetto that provided that safety and security to its community later became the destroyed dead place in which it is portrayed."
Off-Campus Access Restricted AccessAfrican Americans
Subject headings that you can use to search IRIS include:
African Americans - History African Americans - New Jersey African Americans - New Jersey - Newark Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. New York, Macmillan, 1996. 5 vols.
Signed entries covering all aspects of African-American history and life.
Dana Call Number: Ref. E185 .E54 1996.
Wright, Giles R. Afro-Americans in New Jersey: A Short History New Jersey Historical Commission, 1989.
From the Colonial Period to the 1980s.New Jersey Library Association. Bibliography Committee. New Jersey and the Negro: A Bibliography, 1715-1966. Trenton, N.J., 1967.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ Z1361.N39N45Anderson, John R. Negro Education in the Public Schools of Newark, New Jersey, During the Nineteenth Century. Ed.D. Thesis. Rutgers University, 1972.
Historical and sociological study of segregated public schools in Newark from 1828 to 1909. Extensive statistical tables.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK LC2803 .N6A5 1972Price, Clement Alexander. The Beleaguered City as Promised Land: Blacks in Newark, 1917-1947." IN A New Jersey Anthology. Edited and Compiled by Maxine N. Lurie. Newark, New Jersey Historical Society, 1994, pp. 433-461.
Dana Call Number: F134.5.N48 1994; Reprint: F134.5.N48 2002Price, Clement Alexander. The Afro-American Community of Newark, 1917-1947: A Social History. Ph. D. Thesis. Rutgers University, 1975.
Dana Call Number: F144.N6P73 [NEWARK plus STACKS]African-American Woman Working at a Loom, Newark, 1917. William Cone photograph
Interview with Mildred Arnold
Transcript of an interview with Mildred Arnold, an African-American woman born in South Carolina who moved to Newark in 1924 at the age of 8. Part of the New Jersey Historical Commission's New Jersey Multi-Ethnic Oral History Project.Kenney, John A. "The Inter-Racial Committee of Montclair, New Jersey: Report of Survey of Hospital Committee," Journal of the National Medical Association 23(3), July-September 1931, 97-109.
Includes (pp. 99-101) the transcript of a radio address by Dr. Kenney on "The Hospital Facilities for Negroes in Newark and Essex County, N.J." broadcast over Station WNJ on Friday evening, June 5, 1931.
LSM Call Number: Periodical Shelved by TitleKukla, Barbara J. Swing City : Newark Nightlife, 1925-50. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1991.
Discusses Newark as a center for African American music and entertainment in the the first half of the 20th century. Based on interviews with musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, bartenders, waitresses and nightclub owners and their families.
Dana Call Number: ML3508.8.N53K8 1991 [NEWARK plus STACKS]"African American Stories: The Newark Eagles," Jersey Journeys 2000, no. 4 (February 2000).
The Newark Eagles, the outstanding Negro Leagues baseball team, played in Newark from 1937 to 1948. Profile of owner Effa Manley and players Monte Irvin and Larry Doby.Price, Clement A. "The Struggle to Desegregate Newark: Black Middle Class Militancy in New Jersey, 1932-1947," New Jersey History 99(3/4), 1981, 215-228.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleMartucci, William C. To Secure These Rights : A Study of the Political Concerns and Development of the Black Community in Newark, New Jersey, During the Second World War, 1941-1945. Thesis (B.A.), Rutgers University, 1974.
A Henry Rutgers thesis.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ F144.N6M38Courtney, Marion L. Employment Practices in Selected Retail Stores. Trenton, New Jersey Department of Education, Division Against Discrimination, December 1956.
Survey of sixty-four retail stores in Newark, East Orange, Montclair, Bloomfield, Paterson, Passaic, Elizabeth, Plainfield, Trenton, Camden and Atlantic City. Focuses on minority, especially African-American, employment but also includes statistics on the employment of Jews and Italian-Americans.Rapkin, Chester, Grier, Eunice, and Grier, George. Group Relations in Newark, 1957: Problems, Prospects and a Program for Research. Prepared for the Mayor's Commission on Group Relations. New York, 1957.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ HN80 .N55R3Market Planning Corporation. Newark: A City in Transition. Newark, N.J., 1959. 3 volumes.
Prepared for the Mayor's Commission on Group Relations. Vol. 1: The Characteristics of the Population. Vol. 2: Resident's Views on Inter-Group Relations and Statistical Tables. Vol. 3: Summary and Recommendations.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ HN80 .N55A2Price, Clement Alexander. Blacks and Jews in the City of Opportunity : Newark, New Jersey, 1900-1967. 1994.
Paper presented at the Jewish Historical Society of Metrowest on June 13, 1994.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 F144.N6P75 1994Jackson, Kenneth T. and Barbara B. "The Black Experience in Newark: The Growth of the Ghetto, 1870, 1970." IN New Jersey Since 1860: New Findings and Interpretations. Edited by William C. Wright. Trenton, New Jersey Historical Commission, 1972.
Dana Call Number: F134.N56 1971Mikell, Gwendolyn. "Class and Ethnic Political Relations in Newark, New Jersey: Blacks and Italians," IN Cities of the United States. Studies in Urban Anthropology. Edited by Leith Mullings. New York, Columbia University Press, 1987, pp. 71-98.
Dana Call Number: HT123.C4968 1987
Dana Call Number: F144 .N6M86 2007 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Curvin, Robert. The Persistent Minority: The Black Political Experience in Newark. Thesis (Ph.D), Princeton University, 1975.
1950s to the 1970s; focuses on Kenneth Gibson's first term as mayor of Newark.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N6C95 [NEWARK and STACKS]Woodard, Komozi. The Making of the New Ark: Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), the Newark Congress of African People, and the Modern Black Convention Movement: A History of the Black Revolt and the New Nationalism, 1966-1976. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1991.
Dana Call Number: E185.615 .W91 1991a [NEWARK plus STACKS]Woodard, Komozi. "It's Nation Time in NewArk: Amiri Baraka and the Black Power Experiments in Newark, New Jersey," IN Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980. Edited by Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp.
Dana Call Number: E185.61.F8397 2003 [NEWARK plus STACKS]When I was Comin' Up : An Oral History of Aged Blacks. Compiled by Audrey Olsen Faulkner. Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1982. "Life histories of elderly black people in Newark, N.J. from tape recorded reminiscences collected as a project of the Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work."
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144.N69N48 1982Stummer, Helen M. "Ordinary Miseries," Society 24(3), March/April 1987, 83-
Photo essay. Daily life in Newark's Central Ward in the 1980s.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title.Stummer, Helen M. No Easy Walk : Newark, 1980-1993. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1994.
Photo essay, covering over a ten-year span, focusing on one family living in Newark's Central Ward.
Dana Call Number: F144.N69N46 1994 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Photographer Helen Stummer has been documenting the lives of the poorest of the poor in Newark since the early 1980s. In addition to the above publications, she also has a number of photo collections online:
Photos from the Newark Project
Watching Children Grow
How Children Play
Rest in Peace: Urban Caring and Grieving
The Demolition of 322 Irvine Turner Boulevard (1997)"Talkin' Bout a Crisis: The History of Black Newark. An Interview with Clement Price," Blue Newark Culture 1990, 28-45.
Institute of Jazz Studies Call Number: F144 .N6B58 1990
"This essay examines the performance of 'race,' particularly the appropriation of 'Blackness,' among U.S.-born Latinos and Latin American migrants in two neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey."
Off-Campus Access Restricted AccessResearching African-American History
Chinese
The Newark Chinese in the 1920s. Includes an analysis of the population, the standard of living, social life, and adaptation, as well as a history of the Chinese in Newark.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK Microfilm 84When Newark Had A Chinatown
Ongoing project by Yoland Skeete to document the history of the Newark Chinatown. Until 1933 Newark had a significant Chinese population."Clark and Foreman Succeed in Federal Drive Against Newark Chinatown's Opium Business," Trenton Times February 11, 1932.
One of many FBI raids during this period.Wang, Katie. " Vestiges of a Community That Vanished Long Ago: One Man, Memories All That Remain of Newark's Chinatown," Newark Star-Ledger June 3, 2007.
Off-Campus Access Restricted AccessPortuguese
Subject headings that you can use to search IRIS include:
Portuguese - United States Portuguese Americans Portuguese Immigrants in the United States
A bibliography from the Library of Congress.Portuguese Migration
Part of the Lisbon Pages Bibliography on Portugal.Pap, Leo. The Portuguese in the United States: A Bibliography. Staten Island, New York. Center for Migration Studies. 1976.
Alexander Call Number: Z1361.P65P36Mira, Manuel. The Forgotten Portuguese. Franklin, NC, Portuguese-American Historical Research Foundation, Inc., c1998.
Dana Call Number: E184.P8M57 1998Baganha, Maria Ioannis Benis. Portuguese Emigration to the United States, 1820-1930. New York, Garland Pub., 1990.
Alexander Call Number: E184.P8B29 1990Pap, Leo. The Portuguese-Americans. Boston : Twayne Publishers, 1981.
Dana Call Number: E184.P8P34Mulcahy, Maria Gloria. Portuguese of the United States From 1880 ro 1990: Distinctiveness in Work Patterns Across Gender, Nativity and Place. Thesis (Ph.D.), Brown University, 2003.
Looks at questions relating to the divergence of the Portuguese from the usual patterns of work-related aspects of adjustment. Focuses on labor force participation, occupational characteristics, and self-employment. Looks at regional differences between the major Portuguese settlement areas, including the Newark/New York area.
Dana Call Number: E184.P8M85 2003a. [NEWARK plus STACKS]Stephens, Thomas M. "Language Maintenance and Ethnic Survival: The Portuguese in New Jersey," Hispania 72 (3), September 1989, 716-20.
Looks at Portuguese language maintenance and ethnicity in and around Newark, and the role played by education, the Church, the media, and the social clubs.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title.DaCosta Holton, Kimberly. Pride Prejudice and Politics: Performing Folklore Amid Newark's Urban Renaissance," Etnografica 9(1), 2005, 81-101.
Da Costa Holton, Kimberly. "Dancing Along the In-Between: Folklore Performance and Transmigration in Newark, New Jersey," IN Performing Folklore: Ranchos Folcloricos From Lisbon to Newark. Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, 2005. Chapter 6: pp.172-197.
Dana Call Number: GR72.3 .H65 2005 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Reich, Warren A., Ramos, Jennifer M., and Rashmi Jaipal. "Ethnic Identity and Interethnic Dating in Portuguese Young Adults," Asian Journal of Social Psychology 3(2), August 2000, 153-161.
"Forty undergraduate Rutgers-Newark students (21 women and 19 men) of Portuguese descent, aged 18 to 28, participated in a study on identity commitment and attitudes toward interethnic dating. High commitment to a Portuguese identity was associated with a collectivist orientation and with having a social network densely populated with Portuguese people." Available online Restricted AccessCelebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: A Cartographic Perspective
Online exhibit from the Library of Congress. Includes a section on Twentieth-Century Arrivals in Newark.Hispanics
Latino Encyclopedia. Richard and Rafael Chabran, editors. New York, Marshall Cavendish, 1996. 6 vols.
More than 1900 entries ranging from several paragraphs to signed full-length articles with annotated bibliographies relating to the Latino experience in the United States .
Dana Call Number: Ref. E184 .S75L57 1996.Presencia Nueva: Knowledge for Service and Hope: A Study of Hispanics in the Archdiocese of Newark. Newark, N.J., Archdiocese of Newark Office of Research and Planning, 1988.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK BV4468.2 .H57P73 1988
"This essay examines the performance of 'race,' particularly the appropriation of 'Blackness,' among U.S.-born Latinos and Latin American migrants in two neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey."
Off-Campus Access Restricted AccessPuerto Ricans
Subject headings that you can use to search IRIS include:
Puerto Ricans - United States Puerto Ricans - New Jersey Cordasco, Francesco. Puerto Ricans on the United States Mainland: A Bibliography of Reports, Texts, Critical Studies and Related Materials. Totowa, New Jersey, Rowman and Littlefield, 1972.
Annotated bibliography.
Dana Call Number: Ref. Z1361 .P8C67The Puerto Ricans: Migration and General Bibliography. New York, Arno Press, 1975.
Reprint of nine bibliographies.
Dana Call Number: Ref. Z1551 .P86New Jersey. Division on Civil Rights. The Puerto Rican in New Jersey; His Present Status, July, 1955. Newark, 1955.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY F145 .P8N5Hidalgo, Hilda A. The Puerto Ricans in Newark, N.J.. Newark, Aspira, 1971.
Dana Call Number: F145 .P85H5 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Other Ethnic Groups
Dana Call Number: F144 .N69G7 2006Lagos, Denise Chrisoula. Greek Language Maintenance in the Newark Greek Community in New Jersey. Thesis (Ed.D), Rutgers University, 1987.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK PA1047 .U5L34 1987a
Exhibition catalog. Includes an essay by Dermot Quinn on the Irish in Newark and New Jersey prepared for the exhibit held at the Newark Public Library March 14-May 19, 2007, and the exhibit bibliography.Cummings, Charles F. "Irish Immigrants Suffered Before They Ruled in the City" Newark Star-Ledger, October 19, 2000.
Ralph, Raymond M. "The City and the Church: Catholic Beginnings in Newark, 1840-1870," New Jersey History 96(3/4), 1978, 105-118.
In the mid-19th century Catholics, primarily Irish and German immigrants, constituted one of Newark's largest religious groups.
Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by TitleCummings, Charles F. "Poles Strengthened Newark's Cultural and Industrial Traditions." Newark Star-Ledger, August 12, 1999, p. 3.
Newark Schools
Relevant subject headings that you can use in IRIS include:
Newark Public Schools Public Schools - New Jersey - Newark Schools - New Jersey - Newark Education - New Jersey Education - New Jersey - Newark Education, Urban - New Jersey - Newark African Americans--Education--New Jersey--Newark Children of Immigrants - Education Minorities - Education - New Jersey Segregation in Education - New Jersey Politics and Education - New Jersey Educational Change - New Jersey - Newark Burr, Nelson Rollin. Education in New Jersey: 1630-1871. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1942.
Dana Call Number: LA331. B8Sloan, Douglas. Education in New Jersey in the Revolutionary Era. New Jersey's Revolutionary Experience no. 24, Trenton, New Jersey Historical Commission, 1975.
Farrand, Wilson. A Brief History of the Newark Academy 1774-1792-1916. Newark, N.J., Baker Printing Co., 1916.
History of the second oldest school in New Jersey.Powers, Henry P. Female Education: An Address, Delivered in Trinity Church, Newark, N.J., On the Anniversary of the Newark Institute for Young Ladies, July 21, 1826. Newark, M.Lyon, 1826.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK LD7251 .N6P69 1826Raichle, Donald. "Stephen Congar and the Establishment of the Newark Public School System," Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries 38(2), 1976, 57-84.
Dr. Stephen Congar was superintendent of the Newark school system from 1853 to 1859.
Alexander Call Number: Z733 .R955F
Turp, Ralph K. Public Schools in the City of Newark, New Jersey: 1850-1965 Ed.D. Thesis, Rutgers University, 1967.
Dana Call Number: LA333.N6T7 1967 [NEWARK plus STACKS]Nacht, Irmari and Bouton-Goldberg, Bobbie. "Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts." IN Encyclopedia of New Jersey, New Brunswick N.J., Rutgers University Press, 2004, p. 566
From 1882 to 1995 the NSFIA was an important school of fine and applied arts.
Dana Call Number: Ref. F132 .E52 2004Anderson, John R. Negro Education in the Public Schools of Newark, New Jersey, During the Nineteenth Century. Ed.D. Thesis. Rutgers University, 1972.
Historical and sociological study of segregated public schools in Newark from 1828 to 1909. Extensive statistical tables.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK LC2803 .N6A5 1972
"These investigations concerned in the first instance the entire number of pupils in the public schools, the teachers in the public schools, and the pupils in the parochial schools...In addition to this general investigation there was in the city of Newark an investigation of a more intensive character, which concerned the pupils in a certain number of schools...designed to bring out facts of imporatnace concerning the schools progress of the children considered, especially among those of foreign birth and parentage." Extensive tables.Jacewich, Linda M. The Impact of Immigration on Newark, New Jersey's Public and Parochial Primary and Grammar School Programs During the Migration, 1880-1930. Ed.D. Thesis, Seton Hall University, 1993.
Dana Call Number: LC3746.5 .N5J33 1993a [NEWARK plus STACKS]McCabe, Thomas Allan. Miracle on High Street: A History of St. Benedict's Preparatory School, Newark, New Jersey. Ph.D. Thesis. Rutgers Univesity, 2006.
Dana Call Number: In Process [NEWARK plus STACKS] Off-Campus Access Restricted AccessKussick, Marilyn R. School Reform as a Tool of Urban Reform: The Emergence of the Twentieth-Century Public School in Newark, New Jersey, 1890-1920. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers University, 1974.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ LA333.N6K8 1974Raichle, Donald R. "The Great Newark School Strike of 1912," New Jersey History 106(1/2), 1988, 1-17.
In 1912 students of the Morton Street School and the Charlton Stre
