Newark

A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America

Kevin Mumford

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9780814795637
• eBook ISBN:
  9780814759899
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Newark’s volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of protest in the black community. Newark charts this important city's place in the nation, from its founding in 1666 by a dissident Puritan as a refuge from intolerance, through the days of Jim Crow and World War II civil rights activism, to the height of postwar integration and the election of its first black mayor.
In this broad and balanced history of Newark, Kevin Mumford applies the concept of the public sphere to the problem of race relations, demonstrating how political ideas and print culture were instrumental in shaping African American consciousness. He draws on both public and personal archives, interpreting official documents - such as newspapers, commission testimony, and government records—alongside interviews, political flyers, meeting minutes, and rare photos.
From the migration out of the South to the rise of public housing and ethnic conflict, Newark explains the impact of African Americans on the reconstruction of American cities in the twentieth century.

Index

5 and 10 Cent Store, 37 440

Elizabeth Avenue, 74t 826

Units, 74t

A & E Department Stores, 37

Abudato, Stephen, 178, 207

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), 116

Addonizio, Hugh: call for defeat of, 116

Columbus Day holiday, 29

Curvin and, 117

Humphrey on, 133

Imperiale and, 187, 188

mayoral race (1970), 198–199

relations with black community, 187

riots (1967), 129, 133

school board, 104

War on Poverty program in Newark, 107

Affirmative action, 204–205

Affirmative Action Review Council, 204

African Americans: anti-racism, 36–37

black nationalism (see Black nationalism)

black police in major cities, 203t

black radicals, 36–37

class, 5, 7, 65

deindustrialization, 101

direct action protest, 6

disillusionment with liberalism, 5–6, 108

earnings compared to white Americans, 84

economic mobility, 101

empowerment of, 6

home financing, 54–55, 244n15

hyper-masculinity, 178

men (see Black men)

mortgage rates, 244n15

Muslims (see Black Muslims)

in New Jersey (see Black New Jerseyans)

in Newark (see Black Newarkers)

occupational mobility, 65, 101–102

poverty, 160

public sector employment, 215

response to segregation, 100–101

self-destructive despair, 100–101

separatism among (see Separatism)

suburbanization, 65

unemployment, 101, 114

in Union Army, 18

VA-FHA loans, 54–55

women (see Black women)

African Roots Grocery and Produce, 162

African Shippers Transport, 162

African Spectators, 162

Afrika-Newark Festival Committee, 162

Afro-Con International, 162

Alcoholic Board of Control, 268n96

Ali, Noble Drew, 110

Alinsky, Saul, 90, 250n4

Allen, Jesse: bridging students and local blacks, 90, 172

Clinton Hill Neighborhood Council (CHNC), 90, 93

Newark Community Union Program (NCUP), 93

riots (1967), 129

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 116

American Federation of Labor, 26

American Pastoral (Roth), 1...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• I Integration
• II Uprising
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Index
• About the Author