Records of the New Jersey Folk Festival 1974-2009

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Records of the New Jersey Folk Festival 1974-2009

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The New Jersey Folk Festival collection consists of the correspondence, reports, background documents, photographs, and notes created by the New Jersey Folk Festival staff. The folk festival is run as a class by the Rutgers University American Studies Department under the supervision of Professor Angus Gillespie. Consequently, the documents pertain to the folk festival as an event and as a class. The final/area reports in particular document the organization and activities related to the festival.

cubic feet; (42 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes)

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Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives

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Rutgers University

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From July 12 to July 17, 1967, the city of Newark, New Jersey, was wrecked by racial violence. In six days of rioting, 23 people were killed, 725 were injured and nearly 1,500 were arrested. Property damage was estimated at over $10 million. While the riots were still in progress, sixty community leaders formed a Committee of Concern with the following aims: to help restore calm to the city, to study the causes of racial unrest, and to formulate goals for social and economic improve...

Gillespie, Angus K., 1942-....

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Angus Gillespie was born in 1944 and spent his youth in rural Virginia. He graduated from Yale University in 1964 with a BA in American Studies and received a Doctorate in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. At Rutgers, from 1973 to 1975, he was an instructor of American Studies. Subsequently he was an assistant professor from 1975 to 1981, an associate professor from 1981 to 2000 and a full professor from 2000 to the present. Gillespie continues to te...

Douglass College. American Studies Dept.

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New Jersey Folk Festival

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Festival held each April in New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, on the Douglass Campus of Rutgers University; begun in 1975; staffed for over three decades by women undergraduates enrolled in a course offered by the American Studies Department of Douglass College; from 1976, sponsored New Jersey Folklore, an annual publication which was transferred to the (now defunct) New Jersey Folklore Society in 1985; on a rotating basis, has focused much of its content on the folk life of different...