Gus Heningburg Collection (Box #1-#8), 1967-2008.

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Heningburg, Gus. Gus Heningburg Collection (Box #1-#8), 1967-2008.

Gus Heningburg Collection (Box #1-#8), 1967-2008.

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The finding aid consists of five series in 8 Hollinger boxes. Request by box numbers below (BOX #1, etc.). After the completion of the finding aid, 22 Hollinger boxes and 4 Paige boxes (offsite) were added . Series I : Biographical Informations (ca. 1960s-1980s) including resume, speeches, writings, honors and awards and other ephemera. Series II : Photographs (ca. 1960s-1990) including photographs of Heningburg's family, friends, colleagues, and of famous politicians and public figures such as former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean, images of downtown Newark, Newark International Airport, and of local children at events, among other subjects. Series III : Greater Newark Urban Coalition documents (1968-1980) containing documents, correspondence, ephemera, reports, and check stubs booklets that document the activities of this organization. Series IV : Race/Black/Urban issues documents (1967-1994) including materials related to minority hiring at UMDNJ and Newark Airport, the Stella Wright Homes tenant strike, New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, Minority Economic Development Industrial and Cultural Enterprise, Newark Construction Trades Training Corporation, and educational, civil rights, and race issues. Series V : Newspaper clippings (1967-2000) containing newspaper and magazine article clippings of various subjects, organized alphabetically by topic. Hollinger boxes added after the completion of the finding aid. BOX #1: Gus Heningburg biographical and family information, resume (ca. 1970s-1996); Speeches and writings, typed and handwritten (ca. 1960s-1988); Ephemera for honors and awards, letters of congratulation, telegrams, articles (See also BOX #6); Photographs: Gus Heningburg general photos and posing with others (ca. 1960s-1980s), Heningburg studio portrait photographs (ca. 1970-ca.1990), Honorary doctorate, Ramapo College School of Law Ceremony (1987), Heningburg Family and Friends (1960s-1980s), Newark downtown, Scudder Homes, "Raisin in the Sun" performance, picnic, Newark International Airport Scenes, Newark Airport Business Men's Council, Newark Black Business Owners, Testimonial dinner (1970s). BOX #2: Photographs: group shots, unidentified people, Gov. Tom Kean, Mayor Sharpe James, Arthur Ashe (ca. 1960s-1990), concert "Newark Love Festival" (1969; Greater Newark Urban Coalition: Minutes, correspondence, reports (1971-1979), remarks, statements, speeches (ca. 1971-1975), Spanish Directory / bilingual education (1973-1978), check stubs (1972-1978). BOX #3: Greater Newark Urban Coalition and (national) Urban Coalition: ephemera and publications; Urban Coalition newskit: One Year Later an Assessment of the Nation's Response; UMDNJ and Newark Airport related writings, mostly issues regarding minority employment (1968-1971); Black and Puerto Rican Congress reports, correspondence (1970-1973). BOX #4: Stella Wright Homes tenant strike agreements, article (See also BOX #7) (1974); New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority correspondence, press release (1987); MEDIC - Minority Economic Development Industrial and Cultural Enterprise, meeting minutes, newsletters, bylaws, correspondence (1970-1980), NCTTC - Newark Construction Trades Training Corporation, correspondence, press release (1978); City of Newark Housing related application form regarding whether it has a workable program meeting the requirements of Section 101 of the Housing Act of 1949 (1968); Ephemera for events - Newark (1969-1995). BOX #5: Flint, Michigan Board of Education - Mott Program (urban education reform) packet materials (1967); Report: New Jersey's Black Population: an overview of quality of life, by Richard Roper Civil rights/urban and racial issues/racial discrimination articles, memoranda (ca.1960s); Black/urban/civil rights issues articles, publications, reports - national scale (ca.1968). BOX #6. Gus Heningburg specific articles (1968-1996); Greater Urban Coalition #1 (1967-1973), #2 (1968-1979), #3 (1967-1980); Newark Airport, including minority employment issues (1970-1993); Baseball stadium proposal, proposed major league NJ baseball team (1987); Crime (specific crimes and crime in general) (1969-1989); David Dinkins, former mayor of New York City (1989); Death penalty in NJ (1972); Education/Schools, including bilingual education and Newark Teachers Union Strike of 1971 (ca.1971-ca.1986). BOX #7: Employment for minorities, inlincludingnority-owned business (1968-1996); Housing issues, including Stella Wright Homes tenant strike, Kawaida Towers controversy (1968-2000); Newark Love Festival (1969); Newark Mayors including Hugh Addonizio, Kenneth Gibson, Sharpe James (1968-1986); Penal system/institutions, prison reform (See also BOX #7) (1971-1988); Racial issues/problems, including uprising of 1971 (See also BOX #7) (1971-1986); Newark civil disorder of 1969 (1969); UMDNJ - University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, including minority housing discrimination (1969-1973); Welfare including welwelfaregislation (1970-1995); Newark (general) issues - budget, revitalization, legislation, politicians, Symphony Hall performance (1967-1999); State of NJ - general (1969-1994); National issues - affirmative action, minority issues, politics (1969-1995). BOX# 8: Testimonial dinner: Ephemera, correspondence, articles (October 1974).

16.51 linear ft. ( 30 Hollinger boxes, 4 Paige boxes)

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