Newark Riots papers, 1968.

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Newark Riots papers, 1968.

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This collection consists of 3 archival boxes containing photocopies of presentments, reports and affidavits related to death and police abuse that occurred during the civil disturbances in Newark from July 13 through July 18, 1967 : Box #1 (Copy 1) ; Box #2, (Copy 2-1) ; and Box #3 (Copy 2-2) includes files labeled as "Rose Lee Abraham," "Tedock Bell," "Rebecca Brown," " Hatti Gainer," "Raymond Gilmer," "Ike Harrison," "Jesse Mae Jones," "RUFUS Council," "William Furr, Joey Bass," "Albert Mersier," "Eddie Moss," and "Cornelius Murrty."

0.63 linear ft. (3 Half Hollinger boxes)

Newark Public Library, Main Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7915515

Newark Public Library, Main Library

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Newark (N.J.). Police Dept.

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Bell, Tedock.

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Mersier, Albert.

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Sanders, James U. (James Upson), 1859-1923

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James Upson Sanders was born on July 12, 1859, in Akron, Ohio, the first of five sons of Wilbur Fisk Sanders and Harriet Peck Fenn Sanders. In 1863, the family moved overland to Bannack, Idaho Territory. James Sanders attended public schools in Helena, Montana, and then, in 1878, went with his younger brother Wilbur to Phillips Academy at Exeter, New Hampshire. In 1881, he attended law school at Columbia. After graduating in 1884, he returned to Montana and joined his father's law firm. Sanders ...

United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

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In the summer of 1967 a riots broke out in Newark, New Jersey and Detroit, Michigan owing, in part, to political, economic, and social factors including police abuse, lack of affordable housing , urban renewal projects, economic inequality, black militancy, and rapid demographic change. These followed similar outbreaks in Los Angeles and Cleveland the year before. In reaction the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (also known as the Kerner Commission, after its chairman, Gov. Otto K...

Gilmer, Raymond.

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Gainer, Hatti.

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Spellman, Eloise.

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Rutledge, James Luther, 1937-

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Murrty, Cornelius.

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Moss, Eddie.

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Furr, William

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Bass, Joey.

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Pugh, Michael

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Council, Rufus.

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Jones, Jesse Mae.

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Brown, Rebecca, M.D.

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Harrison, Ike.

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Abraham, Rose Lee.

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Newark Public Library. New Jersey Reference Division

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Kerner, Otto, 1908-1976

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Kerner was a Chicago lawyer, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, county judge, Illinois governor (1961-1968), and court of appeals judge, from which post he was removed after a criminal conviction. He spent some months in the Federal Correctional Institution at Lexington, Kentucky. From the description of Letters, August 10, 1974; January 10 and 29, 1975. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 434841882 Kerner was a Chicago lawyer, U. S....