Rutgers University Libraries 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 *UPDATED*

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 2193

The 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 324

A 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.

*UPDATED* 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."

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 2001

Winans, 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 .W758Wi

Lewin, William. A Story of New Jersey Journalism. Newark, N.J., 1928.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK PN4897 .N53L49 1928

Siegel, 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 Access

Eula, Michael. "Ethnicity and Newarks s Italian Tribune, 1934-1980," Italian Americana 19(1), Winter 2001, pp. 23-35.
Alexander: Shelved by Title

Walton, 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 Access

The 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 Title

Reeves, 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 Access

Scudder, 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 Access

Eldridge, 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 Access

Wood, 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.

*NEW* 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]

*NEW* Tuttle, Brad R. How Newark Became Newark: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an American City. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N657T88 2009 [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

*NEW* Pierson, David Lawrence. Narratives of Newark (in New Jersey) From the Days of its Founding. Newark, Pierson Publishing, 1917.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6P62

Turner, 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 2000

Rice, 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]

*NEW* Hine, Charles Gilbert. Woodside, the North End of Newark, N.J.: Its History, Legends, and Ghost Stories, Gathered From the Records and the Older Inhabitants Now Living. New York, Hine's Annual, 1909.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .W89H6

Early 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 Title

Rindler, 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 1977a

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. Reprint of the 1864 publication.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F131 .N62 v.6

Klett, 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 1974a

Fridlington, 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 Title

Nineteenth 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]

*NEW* Fox, Thomas. Drummer Boy Willie McGee, Civil War Hero and Fraud. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Co., 2008.
Dana Call Number: E521 .M38F695 2008 [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 .N63H57

Ralph, 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 1976

Popper, 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]

*NEW* Report and Catalogue of the First Exhibition of Newark Industries. Newark, N.J., Holbrook's Steam Printing, 1872.

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 .N8

Folsom, 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

*NEW* McGill, Nettie. Child Labor in New Jersey: Part 3: The Working Children of Newark and Paterson. Washington, DC, Children's Bureau, 1931
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 Access

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 Title

Photojournalist Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985) worked for the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s, documenting the effects of the economic depression aroung the country.

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 1992

Women 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 .N53H6

Martucci, 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

*NEW* New Jersey Welfare Council. Displaced Persons Committee. Minutes from the October 28, 1949 Displaced Persons Committee meeting in Newark.

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 2003

The 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 1204

Ortner, 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

    1966 Map of Newark

    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 123

    United 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.N6U5

    West, 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 Access

    West, 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."

    *NEW* Krasovic, Mark. The Struggle for Newark: Plotting Urban Crisis in the Great Society. Thesis (Ph.D.), Yale University, 2008.
    Looks for the origin of the Newark urban crisis as a cultural, rather than socioeconomic fact.
    Dana Call Number: HN80 .N5K77 2008a [NEWARK plus STACKS] In Process

    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.

    *NEW* Siegal, Kimberly B. Silent No Longer: Voices of the 1967 Newark Race Riots. Senior Thesis, Honors in American History, University of Pennsylvania, March 2006.
    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 2005

    Hayden, 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 Title

    Hayden, Tom. Rebellion in Newark: Official Violence and Ghetto Response. New York, Vintage Bookds, 1967.
    Dana Call Number: F144 .N6H27 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Porambo, Ron. No Cause for Indictment: An Autopsy of Newark. Hoboken, N.J., Melville House, 2007.
    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* Book TV: No Cause for Indictment: The Explosive Story of the Newark Riots
    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 Access

    Urban 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 1991

    Paige, 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 .N6P35

    Paige, 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 Access

    Herman, 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 Architecture

    Media 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.

    *NEW* Newark 1967: Star-Ledger 1967
    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

    The Kerner Commission: 40 Years Later. March 28, 2008.
    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 1972

    Parks, Brad. 40 years after the riots: A landmark report, ignored
    A Star-Ledger Perspective.

    *NEW* United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities. Subversive Influences in Riots, Looting, and Burning. Part 4. Newark, N.J.. Hearings before the United States House Committee on Un-American Activities, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, April 23, 1968. Washington, D.C., United States Government Printing Office, 1968.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HV6481 .N5U6 1968

    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 .G86

    Brooks, 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 1972

    From 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 *UPDATED*

  • 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
    • Steve Adubato Sr. and the North Ward

    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.6

    Bates, 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 Access

    Newark (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 .N525p

    Winters, 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 Title

    Final 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 1953

    Form 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 *UPDATED*
    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; 1952/53

    Newark 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 1974a

    Sponzilli, 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 .N6876

    Crofts, 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 Title

    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]

    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 1934

    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.

    Turbulent Times: The 1960s and Beyond

    Rabig, Julia. Broken Deal: Devolution, Development and Civil Society in Newark, New Jersey, 1960-1990. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
    "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]

    *NEW* Pomper, Gerald. "Ethnic and Group Voting in Nonpartisan Municipal Elections," Public Opinion Quarterly 30, Spring 1966, 79-97.
    Analyzes the voting patterns in two Newark elections: the municipal nonpartison election of 1962 and the State Assembly contest of 1961. Results suggest that ethnic identification is a major factor in nonpartison elections.
    Off Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access

    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 Title

    *NEW* Cole, Leonard A. "City and Suburb," IN Blacks in Power: A Comparative Study of Black and White Elected Officials. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1976, pp. 154-191.
    Looks at the impact of elected black officials on specific municipal issues in six large cities and ten suburban communities in New Jersey. City section largely focuses on Newark.
    Dana Call Number: JS451 .N55C57

    Krickus, 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 1972

    Mikell, 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 1987

    Guyot, 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 1970z

    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. 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 1973

    *NEW* Amiri Baraka, From Black Arts to Black Radicalism. The Black Power Movement, Part 1. Bethesda, MD, University Publications of America, 2000. 9 microfilm reels.
    9 reels of Baraka materials from the collection of Dr. Komozi Woodard. Includes organizational records, print publications, articles, poems, plays, and speeches by Baraka, some personal correspondance, and oral histories spanning 1960 to 1988. A guide to the collection is available online.
    Available at the Newark Public Library: N.J. Ref. 323.1196073 B617 pt. 1

    Leading 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.21

    Rich, 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 1996

    Kenneth 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 Title

    Barbaro, 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 Title

    Tryman, 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 Access

    Curvin, 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 1978a

    Yatrakis, 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 1981a

    Sharpe 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 Access

    Kraus, 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 Access

    Wharton, Jonathan L. Politics, Paradigms and Perceptions: The Racial, Generational and Urban Development Implications of the 2002 and 2006 Newark Mayoral Elections. Ph.D. Thesis, Howard University, 2008.
    Dana Call Number: JS1242.73 .W43 2008a [NEWARK plus STACKS] In Process

    The 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, 2007

    CBS 2: 1-On-1 with Newark Mayor Cory Booker (Pt.2)
    Broadcast June 12, 2007

    Bill Moyers Journal: Mayor Cory Booker of Newark
    Video and transcript. March 28, 2008.

    Booker, Cory. 25 Accomplishments in 25 Months. Newark, N.J., Newark Press Information Office, 2008.
    Dana Call Number: F144 .N5N49 2008 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    *NEW* Ifill, Gwen. "Cory Booker," IN The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. New York, Doubleday, 2009, pp. 137-157.
    Dana Call Number: E185.615 .I34 2009 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    The City and the Community

    Rabig, Julia. Broken Deal: Devolution, Development and Civil Society in Newark, New Jersey, 1960-1990. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
    "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 1974

    Gillespie, 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 Access

    Stevenson, 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 1981a

    Mathur, 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

    *NEW* Wilson, Kellie Darice. The Political Spaces of Black Women in the City: Identity, Agency, and the Flow of Social Capital in Newark, NJ. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2007.
    "This project explores U.S. Black women's participation in social networks that enable political mobilizations in Newark, NJ."
    Dana Call Number: E185.86 .W55 2007a [NEWARK plus STACKS] IN PROCESS

    Steve Adubato Sr. and the North Ward *NEW*

    Casciano, Rebecca. "By Any Means Necessary": The American Welfare State and Machine Politics in Newark's North Ward. Thesis (Ph.D), Princeton University, 2009.
    Focuses on Steve Adubato Sr's North Ward Center and the North Ward Democratic Party as a "machine-CBO [Community-Based Organization]", "an institution that combines, in varying degrees, elements of machine politics and nonprofit social service provision...As nonprofit social service provision became a popular method for delivering goods to poor communities during the War on Poverty, it also opened the door for emerging political leaders to draw on nonprofit organizations as tools for mobilization."
    Dana Call Number: HV4046 .N5C37 2009 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Wilkes, Marjorie D. The Development and Significance of a Political Role for Community-Based Organizations: Theory and Practice in Newark, New Jersey. Senior Thesis. Princeton University, 1984.
    Dana Call Number: On Order

    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 1981a

    Caucus Up Close: Steve Adubato Talk with His Father, Steve Adubato, Sr. Caucus Educational Corporaton.
    Dana Call Number: Dana Media Video [In Process].

    The People: Everyone Comes From Somewhere *UPDATED*

  • 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 2000

    Reference 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 1999

    We 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 1988

    Harvard 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.A1H35

    Shaw, 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 1994

    Vecoli, 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.N5V4

    The 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.A1N47

    Cohen, David Steven. New Jersey Ethnic History : A Bibliography. Trenton, NJ : New Jersey Historical Commission, Dept. of State, 1986.
    Dana Call Number: Ref. Z1313.C63 1986

    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 1976

    GERMANS

    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 .G3C4

    Von 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 1913

    Levine, 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 Title

    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 Title

    ITALIANS

    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.20

    Tardi, 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 1989

    Carlevale, 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.I8C3

    Eula, 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 1993

    Italian 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 2180

    Churchill, 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 1975

    Eula, Michael. "Ethnicity and Newarks s Italian Tribune, 1934-1980," Italian Americana 19(1), Winter 2001, pp. 23-35.
    Alexander: Shelved by Title

    Flock, 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.N6F62

    Miles, 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.N6M64

    Courtney, 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 Access

    Mikell, 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 1987

    Testa, 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.N6T34

    Bolen, 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 1987

    Ard, 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 2002

    Jewish 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.E8J4

    Helmreich, 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]

    *NEW* Forgosh, Linda B. The Jews of Weequahic. Mount Pleasant, SC, Arcadia Publishing, 2008.
    Part of the "Images of America" series.
    Dana Call Number: IN PROCESS

    Bennett, 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 Title

    Davis, 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 Title

    Unterman, 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.N6U5

    Gould, 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 .N6C68

    Report 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 1948b

    Shapiro, 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 Title

    Shapiro, 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 Title

    Courtney, 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 1995

    Ortner, 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 1994

    Goldblatt, 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 Access

    African 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.N39N45

    Anderson, 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

    *NEW* Moorman, Wilson. James Miller Baxter, Newark Principal. Thesis (M.A.), Newark State College, 1961.
    James Miller Baxter (1845-1909), the first African-American school administrator in the Newark school system, served as the principal of the Colored School of Newark between 1869 and 1873.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK LA2317 .B39M66 1961a In Process

    Price, 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 2002

    Price, 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 Title

    Kukla, 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 Title

    Martucci, 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

    Courtney, 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 .N55R3

    Market 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 .N55A2

    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 1994

    Jackson, 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 1971

    Mikell, 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

    *NEW* 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]

    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 1982

    Stummer, 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:

    "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

    *NEW* Ramos-Zayas, Ana Y. "Becoming American, Becoming Black? Urban Competency, Racialized Spaces, and the Politics of Citizenship among Brazilian and Puerto Rican Youth in Newark," Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 14, 2007, 85-109.
    "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 Access

    Researching African-American History

    Chinese

    *NEW* Meng, Zhi. The Chinese of Newark, New Jersey: A Social Survey. Thesis (M.A.), Columbia University, 1924.
    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 84

    When 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 Access

    Portuguese

    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.P65P36

    Mira, Manuel. The Forgotten Portuguese. Franklin, NC, Portuguese-American Historical Research Foundation, Inc., c1998.
    Dana Call Number: E184.P8M57 1998

    Baganha, Maria Ioannis Benis. Portuguese Emigration to the United States, 1820-1930. New York, Garland Pub., 1990.
    Alexander Call Number: E184.P8B29 1990

    Pap, Leo. The Portuguese-Americans. Boston : Twayne Publishers, 1981.
    Dana Call Number: E184.P8P34

    Mulcahy, 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 Access

    Celebrating 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

    *NEW* Ramos-Zayas, Ana Y. "Becoming American, Becoming Black? Urban Competency, Racialized Spaces, and the Politics of Citizenship among Brazilian and Puerto Rican Youth in Newark," Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 14, 2007, 85-109.
    "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 Access

    Puerto 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 .P8C67

    The Puerto Ricans: Migration and General Bibliography. New York, Arno Press, 1975.
    Reprint of nine bibliographies.
    Dana Call Number: Ref. Z1551 .P86

    New Jersey. Division on Civil Rights. The Puerto Rican in New Jersey; His Present Status, July, 1955. Newark, 1955.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY F145 .P8N5

    Hidalgo, Hilda A. The Puerto Ricans in Newark, N.J.. Newark, Aspira, 1971.
    Dana Call Number: F145 .P85H5 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Other Ethnic Groups

    *NEW* Lampros, Angelique. Remembering Newark's Greeks: An American Odyssey. Virginia Beach, VA., Donning Co. Publishers, 2006.
    Dana Call Number: F144 .N69G7 2006

    Lagos, 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

    *NEW* The Irish in Newark and New Jersey: Exhibition at the Newark Public Library
    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 Title

    Cummings, 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. B8

    Sloan, 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 1826

    Raichle, 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

    *NEW* Course of Study for the Public Schools of Newark, N.J. Adopted by the Board of Education, July 30, 1897. Newark, W.H. Shurts Co., Printers, 1897.

    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 2004

    Anderson, 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

    *NEW* Moorman, Wilson. James Miller Baxter, Newark Principal. Thesis (M.A.), Newark State College, 1961.
    James Miller Baxter (1845-1909), the first African-American school administrator in the Newark school system, served as the principal of the Colored School of Newark between 1869 and 1873.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK LA2317 .B39M66 1961a In Process

    The Children of Immigrant in Schools: Newark. IN United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910). The Children of Immigrants in Schools. Reports of the Immigration Commission. Washington, DC., Government Printing Office, 1911. Vol.4, pp. 189-317.
    "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 Access

    Kussick, 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 1974

    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 Title

    Winslow, Charles Henry. Vocational Overview of Newark, New Jersey: Report of Advisory Committee to Board of Education on the Proposed Girls' Vocational School. Newark, Board of Education, 1916.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK LC1505 .N8W56 1916

    "Newark High-School Teachers' Campaign for Higher Salaries, School Life 2(6), March 16, 1919, pp.4-5.

    The All Year Schools of Newark, N.J.. Report submitted by Dr. Wilson Farrand and Professor M.V. O'Shea. Newark, 1926.
    Includes a report by R.K. Atkinson on the "Playground Facilities in the All-Year Schools in Newark, N.J."

    Carleu, Eleanor H. "The Uses of French by Graduates of Barringer High School, Newark, New Jersey," Modern Language Journal 25(3), December 1940, 199-210.
    Survey of Barringer graduates who had studied French. Found that "French can help to fulfill one of our seven cardinal principles of education, that of 'worthy use of leisure time.'" In addition to the tables relating to the use of French, has an interesting breakdown of respondents according to occupation.
    Off-Campus Access. Restricted Access

    Columbia University. Teachers College. Institute of Educational Research. Division of Field Studies. Report of a Survey of the Public Schools of Newark, New Jersey. New York, 1942.
    Alexander Call Number: LA333 .N406

    *NEW* Katz, Zelda Girion. Case Study of the Peshine Avenue School, Newark, New Jersey. Thesis (M.S.E.), New Jersey State Teachers College at Newark, 1956.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK LC5128.5 .K38 1956a In Process

    Ortner, 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]

    Phillips, William M Jr et al. Participation of the Black Community in Selected Aspects of the Educational Institution of Newark, 1958-1972. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers, the State University, 1973.
    Final report of a two-year study on the interdependency of race and education in Newark between 1958 and 1972. Focuses on the changing relationship between the Newark Board of Education and the black community.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK LC2803 .N6P4

    Phillips, William M. Jr. Educational Policy, Community Participation, and Race, Journal of Negro Education 44(3), Summer 1975, 257-267.
    Summary of the findings and implications of the above study.
    Off Campus Access Restricted Access

    Phillips, William M. and Conforti, Joseph M. Social Conflict: Teachers' Strikes in Newark, 1964-1971. An Issue Paper on a Topical Subject in Education. Trenton, N.J., State Department of Education, Division of Research, Planning and Education, 1972.
    Alexander Call Number: DOCNJ LB2844.57 .N5P45 1972

    Conforti, Joseph M. "Racial Conflict in Central Cities: The Newark Teachers' Strikes," Society 12(1), 1974, 22-33.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Golin, Steve. "What Did Teachers Want?: Newark Teachers and Their Union," Contemporary Education 69(4), Summer 1998, 233-37.
    Presents the history of the New Teachers Union which became the bargaining agent for Newark teachers in 1969.
    Electronic Access via Academic Search Premier Restricted Access.

    Golin, Steve. The Newark Teacher Strikes: Hopes on the Line. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2002.
    Dana Call Number: LB2844.47 .U62N494 2002 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Fiorito, Frank A. The Anatomy of a Strike: The Newark Teachers Union/February 1, 1970 to February 25, 1970. Newark, Newark Teachers Union, 1970.
    The strike from the union's point of view. Heavily illustrated.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HD5326 .N533T2 1970

    Eiger, Norman. The Newark School Wars: A Socio-historical Study of the 1970 and 1971 Newark School System Strikes. Ed.D. Thesis, Rutgers University, 1976. 2 vols.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK LA333 .N4E44

    Barbaro, Fred. "The Newark Teachers' Strike," Urban Review 5(3), 1972, 3-10.
    The 1971 teachers strike and the idea of community control of education.
    Alexander Call Number: DocUS FS5.212/U

    Pratt, Randy. New Jersey State Department of Education Monitoring, Intervention, and Takeover Practices in the Newark, Trenton, and Jersey City Public School Districts. Ed.D. Thesis, Seton Hall University, 1992.
    Dana Call Number: LB2809. .N5P73 1992a [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Anyon, Jean. "Teacher Development and Reform in an Inner City School," Teachers College Record 96(1), 1994, 14-31.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title. Also Electronic Access via Academic Search Premier Restricted Access.

    Anyon, Jean. "Inner City School Reform: Toward Useful Theory," Urban Education 30(1), April 1995, 56-70.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title.

    Anyon, Jean. "Race, Social Class, and Educational Reform in an Inner-City School, Teachers College Record 97(1), Fall 1995, 69-94.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title. Also Electronic Access via Academic Search Premier Restricted Access.

    Anyon, Jean. Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform. New York, Teachers College Press, 1997.
    Looks at an effort at educational reform in Newark in the early 90s and traces how past economic and political decisions have shaped Newark city schools. An important work on urban educational policy.
    Dana Call Number: F144 .N69G76 2003 [NEWARK plus STACKS] also Electronic Access Restricted Access.

    Rich, 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 1996

    New Jersey. Legislature. Joint Committee on the Public Schools. Committee Meeting of Joint Committee on the Public Schools: Commissioner of Education, Dr. Leo Klagholz and Newark State District Superintendent, Dr. Beverly Hall will Present the District's Strategic Plan. Trenton, N.J., December 16, 1996.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK LA333 .N6P83 12/16/96

    New Jersey. Legislature. Joint Committee on the Public Schools. Committee Meeting of Joint Committee on the Public Schools: Testimony on the State Operation of the Newark Public Schools.

    February 5, 1997: Dana Call Number: NEWARK LA333 .N6P83 2/5/97
    March 5, 1997: Dana Call Number: NEWARK LA333 .N6P83 3/5/97

    New Jersey. Legislature. Joint Committee on the Public Schools. Committee Meeting of Joint Committee on the Public Schools: Testimony from Commissioner William L. Librera on the Status of the Three State-Run Districts.

    April 17, 2003. Also at Dana Call Number: NEWARK L179 .N5P83 4/17/2003

    Spiller, Nancy Ann. Racial Segregation in New Jersey's Public Schools: Progressive Public Policy at a Crossroads. D.Litt. Thesis. Drew University, 2001.
    "Explores the disjuncture between the segregated condition of the public school system and progressive public policy developed to correct that problem." Includes case studies of Newark, Englewood, Camden, and Montclair schools.
    Dana Call Number: LC212.522 .N5S64 2001a [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Burns, Peter. "Regime Theory, State Government, and a Takeover of Urban Education," Journal of Urban Affairs 25(3), July 2003, 285-303.
    Examines the state takeover of Newark schools. "The Newark case illustrates how politics and structural conditions motivated state government to change the nature of the education regime and directly shape education policy at the local level."
    Off-Campus Access Restricted Access

    Eglinton, William M. Myths and Realities: The Impact of the State Takeover on Students and Schools in Newark. Boston Mass., Community Training and Assistance Center, c.2000. Data and perceptions on school and district operations, community engagement, and student performance five years after the State takeover of Newark city schools.

    Putting the Children First: The Changing Face of Newark's Public Schools. Edited by Jonathan G.Silin and Carol Lippman. New York, Teachers College Press, 2003.
    Focuses on "Project New Beginnings," a collaborative project begun in 1996 between the Newark Public Schools and the Bank Street College of Education (NYC) aimed at restructuring early childhood education.
    Dana Call Number: LA333 .N4P88 2003 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Callahan, Kathe; Sadovnik, Alan; and Visconti, Louisa. Performance-Based Accountability: Newark's Charter School Experience. Newark, N.J., Rutgers University. Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies, June 2002. Revised December 2002.

    Visconti, Louisa et al. Charter Schools and Urban Education Improvement: Newark and New Jersey's Charter Schools National Conference on Charter Schools: Trends and Policy Issues. Sacramento, CA, March 27-28, 2004.

    Barr, Jason M. A Statistical Analysis of the Newark Public Schools November 2004.
    Using 2002-2003 New Jersey Report Card data, analyses the performance and characteristics of fourth and eighth grade students in Newark public schools. Looks at determinants of student performance and differences in student composition and performance between charter and other public schools.

    Barr, Jason; Sadovnik, Alan; and Visconti, Louisa. Charter Schools and Urban Education Improvement: A Comparison of Newark's District and Charter Schools October 2005.

    Barr, Jason; Sadovnik, Alan; and Visconti, Louisa. A Comparison of District and Charter Schools for 4th and 8th Grades in Newark, New Jersey. May 2006
    Rutgers University Newark Working Paper #2006-002.

    Charter High Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap: Innovations in Education. Washington, D.C., U.S. Dept. of Education, 2006.
    Profiles eight charter schools, including the North Star Academy School of Newark, that are meeting achievement goals under No Child Left Behind (NCLB). 95% of North Star's 2005 graduates were accepted to 4-year universities.

    Newark Public Schools 2005 Long Range Facilities Plan: Summary Report. January 2005

    Newark Public Schools: Five-Year Management Plan: Summary Report. 1999
    Includes "data collected from the five School Leadership Teams (SLTs) that examined school space issues within different geographical regions in the district. Each SLT report includes a summary of existing conditions, physical space analyses and deficiencies, facility operations costs, and deficiency and correction budgets for each school on an item-by-item basis."

    Skinner, David. " Home is Where the Heart Is: Can Cory Booker Save Newark's Schools?," Education Next 2006(4), Fall 2006, 23-29

    2005-06 Newark Schools Report Card
    Narrative profile plus data (class size, internet connectivity, grade enrollment, language diversity, student performance indicators, faculty, district financial data, etc.] for each school in the Newark City district.

    2006 Newark Schools "No Child Left Behind" Report
    Status regarding adequate yearly progress; information on highly qualified teachers; attendance and dropout data; and assessment data for each school in the Newark City district.

    Newark Public Schools: School Directory 2007-2008

    Newark Public Schools 2005-2006 Annual Report

    Newark Public Schools Map

    The College Experience

  • Dana College/University of Newark/Rutgers-Newark
    • New Jersey College of Pharmacy/Rutgers University College of Pharmacy
    Seth Boyden School of Business/Rutgers Business School
  • Newark Technical School/Newark College of Engineering/New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Legal Education
  • Newark Normal School/Newark State College/Kean College

    • Dana College/University of Newark/Rutgers-Newark

    The Dana Library has the following Newark student newspapers available on Microfilm:

    The Dana College Chronicle 1930-1935
    The University of Newark Observer 1936-1942
    The Observer 1942-1953
    The Rutgers Observer 1953-1975
    The Observer 1975-1980

    An incomplete collection of unbound issues of the Observer is also available in the Dana Library Archives.

    University of Newark 1990 Reunion [Videorecording].
    "A history, in black and white still photographs, of the University of Newark, which merged with Rutgers University in 1946 to form Rutgers-Newark."
    Dana Call Number: Media Video 343

    Bennett, Hugh Francis. A History of the University of Newark, 1908-1945. Thesis (Ph.D), New York University, 1956.
    Dana Call Number: LD3905 .N22B46 1984a [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Rutgers-Newark History

    Wechsler, Harold S. Brewing Bachelors: The History of the University of Newark
    From the establishment of the University of Newark in 1936 to the merger of the University with Rutgers University in 1946.

    Electronic New Jersey: Rutgers Prepares for War
    Digitized documents from the Rutgers University Libraries Special Collections and University Archives. Response of the Rutgers (New Brunswick) community to U.S. entry into World War II.

    *NEW* Lewis, Jan Ellen. A Brief History of the Red Scare at Rutgers
    "In the early 1950s, three members of the faculty were forced out of our university for refusing to answer Congressional questions about their possible Communist affiliations." Delivered to the Faculty, Rutgers University, Newark March 25, 2009.

    *NEW* Richards, Thomas F. The Cold War at Rutgers University: A Case Study of the Dismissals of Professors Heimlich, Finley, and Glasser. Thesis (Ph.D), Rutgers University, 1986.
    Dana Call Number: On Order

    Rutgers From the Inside: A View of a Contemporary University [Motion Picture]
    "Shows college classrooms (graduate and undergraduate), activities, and campus of Rutgers University (Rutgers, Rutgers Newark, Douglass) in 1966. Includes interviews with students who express their attitudes towards classmates, curriculum, and the transition to a state university."
    Media Call Number: FILM 5-211

    Electronic New Jersey: Social Protest in the 1960s and 1970s
    Based on sources from the Rutgers University Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives.

    *NEW* 40th Anniversary of the 1969 Conklin Hall Takeover
    On February 24th 1969, members of the Rutgers-Newark Black Organization of Students (BOS)took over Conklin Hall, one of the main classroom buildings, to protest the lack of minority students and faculty on campus. A project of the John Cotton Dana Library Digital Preservation Initiative, the site features several slide shows, video interviews, a time line, and digital documents and photographs.

    *NEW* Rutgers-Newark Marks 40th Anniversary of Conklin Takeover
    Kelly Heyboar. Newark Star-Ledger February 24, 2009.

    Rutgers Newark commemorates takeover of Conklin Hall

    Dungan, Ralph A. A Report to the New Jersey Legislature Concerning the Recent Events and Disturbances at the Newark and Camden Campuses of Rutgers, the State University. Trenton, Department of Higher Education, 1969.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK LD4753 .D8

    Winterbauer, Nancy. An Analysis of the 1968-1969 Black Student Disturbances at Rutgers University. Thesis (ED. D.), Rutgers University, 1980.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK LC.W787 1980

    McCormick, Richard Patrick. The Black Student Protest Movement at Rutgers. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1990.
    Dana Call Number: LD4756.M38 1990 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Brown Bowles, Deborah. Factors Contributing to the Decline of Black Undergraduate Enrollment at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey: 1981-1985. Thesis (Ph.D), Temple University, 1989.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK LC2781 .B76 1988a

    Farza, Omid. What Does it Mean to be an American at Rutgers-Newark?
    A Newark Metro report.

    New Jersey College of Pharmacy/Rutgers University College of Pharmacy

    Bowers, Roy A. The Rutgers University College of Pharmacy: A Centennial History. Roy A. Bowers and David L. Cowen. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1991.
    Established as the New Jersey College of Pharmacy in 1892 in Newark, the College became part of Rutgers in 1927. In 1971 the College moved from Newark to Busch Campus in New Brunswick.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK RS111 .N5B69

    Inventory to the Records of the New Jersey College of Pharmacy, 1892-1942
    Administrative history, chronology of events up to 1927, and collection scope and contents notes.

    Seth Boyden School of Business/Rutgers Business School

    RBS at Seventy-Five: 75-Year Retrospective: 1929-2004
    The Rutgers Business School--Newark and New Brunswick.

    Newark Technical School/Newark College of Engineering/New Jersey Institute of Technology

    History of the Newark Technical School and the Newark College of Engineering
    Unpublished 415 page history of what is now the New Jersey Institute of Technology written by a group of faculty and administrators in 1955.

    Thomas, Leroy. Expediency, Vision, and Leadership: Factors in the Development and Growth of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1881-2002. Ph.D. Thesis, Fordham University, 2004.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK T171 .N5T46 2004a

    NJIT Attic
    "The mission of the NJIT Attic is to collect, document, and display -- in both digital and traditional formats -- items, objects, information, and records that tell the corporate and social living history of NJIT and its predecessors." Includes digital NJIT Yeakbooks for 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954 and 1969.

    Legal Education

    Skemer, Don C. "The Institutio legalis and Legal Education in New Jersey: 1783-1817," New Jersey History 96(3/4), Autumn/Winter 1978, 123-134.
    On November 27, 1783 six law clerks met in Newark to form a moot court society. The Institutio legalis was New Jersey's first experiment in organized legal education.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Newark Normal School/Newark State College/Kean College

    Raichle, Donald R. From a Normal Beginning: The Origins of Kean College of New Jersey. Rutherford N.J., Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c1980.
    The history of the Newark Normal School from its founding in 1855, its evolution to Newark State College and move to Union, N.J. in 1958, and its reemergence as Kean College in 1973.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ LD2750.R34

    Getting Around: Transportation

    "Development of Transportation Networks in New Jersey From the Colonial Era Until 1946," IN The New Jersey Historic Bridge Survey. Prepared by A.G. Lichtenstein & Associates, Inc. for the New Jersey Department of Transporation Bureau of Environmental Analysis, September 1994, pp. 24-52.

    Drummond, James O. Transportation and the Shaping of the Physical Environment in an Urban Place: Newark, 1820-1900. Thesis (Ph.D), New York University, 1979.
    Focuses on "the role of transportation in the ascendancy and decline of this major American industrial city during the nineteenth century."
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6D7

    *NEW* Folson, Joseph F. "The Beginnings of the Morris & Essex Railroad," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. New Series Vol. 1, No. 2, 1916. pp. 60-71.

    Taber, Thomas T. "The First Commuters From Morris County," New Jersey History 85(2), Summer 1967, 86-99.
    Commuting from Morristown to Newark in the first half of the 19th century. From the Morris Turnpike to the Morris and Essex Railroad Horse Car, to the Morris and Essex Railroad.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Conniff, James C.G. and Conniff, Richard. The Energy People: A History of PSE&G. Newark, Public Service Electric and Gas Company, 1978.
    History of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey and its founder and long-time president Thomas McCarter. At the turn of the 20th century utilities were primarily transport providers; Newark's Public Service Corporation came to be the major provider of intra and inter-city transportation services--trolley, electric rail, bus and ferry--not only in Newark but throughout New Jersey.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HD2767 .N44C6

    Parson, Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas. Report on Traffic and Transportation in the City of Newark and Vicintity. Newark, 1927.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 HE310.N6P37 1927

    Newark Area Transportation Study: A Study of Population, Land-Use, Employment and Circulation Trends as they Affect Emerging Transportation Needs in the Newark Area. Trenton, N.J., Dept. of Convervation and Economic Development, 1959.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HE310 .N6N49 1959

    Re: Newark Economic Development Land Use and Transportation Plan June 9, 1999
    Response from local and regional agencies to the Newark Economic Development Land Use and Transportation Plan developed by Parsons Brinckerhoff.

    *NEW* 'Informed Intuition': Discussion Paper for Newark's Transit Future. Prepared by Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center and PBF Consulting. New Brunswick, N.J., Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, February 2008.
    Examines existing conditions and reports on recommendations resulting from interviews with industry experts on policies and projects that could improve Newark transit services.

    Newark Light Rail
    New Jersey Transit site: current schedules, fares, map, and connections.

    Public Service Trolleys

    Goodrich, Ernest Payson. Trolley Transportation, City of Newark, N.J. Newark, 1912.
    Report to the City Plan Commission.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLX TF725.N6G6

    Mankoff, Al. "The Seventh Wonder of the Traction World"
    History of the Newark Public Service Trolley Terminal. Originally published in "Electriclines" magazine, July/August 1990.

    Public Service of New Jersey: Newark Streetcars
    Bill Volkmer Collection of images.

    Brinckmann, John. The Union Trolley Line. Highlands, N.J., National Railway Historical Society, North Jersey Chapter, 1988.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HE4487 .N5B75 1988

    Four Corners Traffic Tower

    The Four Corners Traffic Tower
    Nat Bodian for Old Newark Memories. The history of the tower from which police directed traffic at "the world's busiest traffic intersection"--the corner of Broad and Market Street--from 1925 to 1939.

    The Four Corners Traffic Tower Images.

    Subways

    Abandoned Stations: The Cedar Street Subway (Kresge's and McCrory's)
    "The Cedar St subway was constructed in 1914-1916 by the Public Service Railway to bring streetcars into the lower level of the new Public Service Terminal in downtown Newark" History, diagram, and photographs.

    Newark City Subway

    Newark City Subway Timeline Significant dates in the history of the Newark City Subway from the building of the Morris Canal in the 1820s to the 1990s.

    Riley, John Harrington. Newark City Subway Lines. Oak Ridge, N.J., 1987.
    The basic book on the City Subway.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK TF847 .N53R55 1987

    Saitta, Joseph P. The City Subway: Newark's Best Kept Secret. Merrick, N.Y., Traction Slides International, 1985.
    Photographic history of the Newark City Subway. Includes track maps.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK TF847.N53S25 1985

    Abandoned Stations: Newark City Subway Platforms
    Includes a history of construction and operations, a diagram, and photographs.

    Newark City Subway. Photographs, includes views from the 1970s.

    Newark, New Jersey: The City Subway
    Description of the current subway followed by photographs taken between 1999 and 2001.

    Light Rail Extension

    Newark, New Jersey Subway Connection
    On the plan to connect Newark's Penn Station to the Broad Street Station.

    *NEW* Carmen, Richard A., Smoluchowski, Peter, and Berliner, Harvey L. "Floating Slab Trackbed Design to Control Groundborne Noise from Newark-Elizabeth Rail Link Light Rail Transit," IN Experience, Economics, and Evolution: From Starter Lines to Growing Systems. 9th National Light Rail Transit Conference, November 16-18, 2003, Portland Oregon. Washington, DC, Transportation Research Board, November 2003, pp. 407-420.
    Mitigating groundnoise levels so as to not adversely affect New Jersey Performing Arts Center events.

    *NEW* Smothers, Ronald. Rail Spur Brings Downtown Newark a Taste of Its Past
    Newark's light rail spur opens July 17, 2006.

    Hudson Tubes

    The Hudson Tubes
    Images of the Newark Hudson Tubes Station

    Buses

    Kramer, Murray S. "Newark Independents," Motor Coach Age 44(5/6), May/June 1992, 4-32.

    Bridges

    New Jersey Historic Bridge Data: Essex County. The New Jersey Historic Bridge Survey. Prepared by A.G. Lichtenstein & Associates, Inc. for the New Jersey Department of Transporation Bureau of Environmental Analysis, September 1994.
    Part of a survey designed to assess all bridges built before 1947 for their eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. For those judged to be of historical significance, includes a physical description, bibliography, and information on technological and historical significance.

    *NEW* Essex County Bridge Records, 1880.
    Dana Call Number: In Process

    1958 Newark Bay Bridge Wreck Photograph

    New Jersey Central Railroad

    CNJ Newark Branch Timetable (Week days) June 1925

    CNJ Newark Branch Timetable (Week days) April 1941

    Pennsylvania Railroad

    Commemorating the Opening of Pennsylvania Station, Newark, New Jersey, March 23, 1935
    Illustrated booklet produced for the opening ceremony. Section on "Architectural Features" includes McKim, Mead, and White's diagrammatic street-level plan, as well as a cross-section. Also includes a section on the "World's Greatest Railroad Lift Bridge."

    Newark Airport

    Newark Liberty Facts
    Includes brief history as well as statistics from 1949 to the present.

    Newark Metropolitan Airport Buildings
    The early history of the "first great commercial airport in the United States." The original Art Deco buildings are now on the National Register of Historic Places.

    Arend, Geoffrey. Newark International: Celebrating 60 Years 1928-1988. Revised edition. New York, Air Cargo News, 1989.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HE9797.5 .U62N62 1989 [In Process]

    Gorky, Arshile. Murals Without Walls : Arshile Gorky's Aviation Murals Rediscovered. Ruth Bowman, guest curator. Newark, N.J. : Newark Museum, 1978.
    In 1935 Armenian-born Arshile Gorky was employed by the Federal Art Project to produce a large mural for the new Administration building at the Newark airport. Lost for decades, two of the ten panels (now in the Newark Museum) were rediscovered in the 1970s. O'Connor, Francis V. "Arshile Gorky's Newark Airport Murals: The History of Their Making," pp. 17-29; Jordan, Jim M. "The Place of the Newark Murals in Gorky's Art," pp. 47-64.
    Dana Call Number: ND237.G613A4 1978 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Ellenstein, Meyer C. Brief in Support of the Retention of the Newark Metropolitan Airport as the Eastern Airmail Terminal. Newark, Fidelity Union Trust Company, 1935.
    "On June 20, 1935, at the request of Harllee Branch, First Assistant Postmaster General, Mayor Ellenstein with a Citizens Committee went to Washington to present in a formal brief the facts supporting the retention of the Metropolitan Airport at Newark, N.J., and in contradiction of claims that the Airport should be removed to Floyd Bennett Field in Long Island."
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HE6496 .E44 1935.

    Newark Metropolitan Airport
    One of the "Stories of New Jersey Prepared for Use in Public Schools" by the Federal Writers Project (1939).

    Tillet, Paul. The Closing of Newark Airport. ICP Case Series no. 27, University of Alabama Press, 1955.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 TL725.3 .G6T55 1955

    Hough, Bill. "Newark International Airport: the First 70 Years," Airliners no. 59, September/October 1999, 32-43.

    Newark Airport
    Includes photographs of Newark Airport in the 1950s.

    Schank, Joshua and Sclar, Elliott. "Flying on the Pike: The New Jersey Turnpike and the History of Newark Airport," New Jersey History 118(3/4), 2000, 51-59.
    As a result of the easy access provided by the construction of the New Jersey Turnpike in the early 1950s, the Newark Airport became the busiest airport in the region.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Fairweather, Virginia. "Historical Terminal Takes a Ride in Newark," Civil Engineering 70(12), December 2000, 11.
    "The 1935 landmark terminal building at New Jersey's Newark International Airport has been split into three pieces and mounted on dollies for a 3,700 ft (1,130m) long trip across airport property as part of a massive airport redevelopment program."
    Available online. Restricted Access.

    Evans, Antony D. and Clarke, John-Paul B. Responses to Airport Delays: A System Study of Newark International Airport. Cambridge, MA, MIT International Center for Air Transportation, June 2002.

    EWR Turns 80: A History of Newark Liberty International Airport. An Exhibition at the Newark Public Library April 7-June 14, 2008.
    Exhibition booklet.

    Other Transport

    Ambulances
    Photographs of Newark City Hospital ambulances from 1886 to 1945. [Page down to "Box List."]

    What They Saw: Newark Art and Architecture

    ARCHITECTURE AND LANDMARKS

    Directories of Buildings and Sites

    National Register of Historical Places - Essex County
    Directory of Essex County sites which have been designated as official federal landmarks.

    Guide to Newark Landmarks and Points of Note
    Address and brief description, part of the City of Newark Website.

    Emporis Database: Newark
    Lists of all Newark buildings over 12 stories (including those planned but never built); photographs, construction histories, architects, etc. Emphasis on high-rise architecture, but also lists some low-rise buildings and churches.

    Reinventing Newark: Visions of the City From the Twentieth Century
    Unrealized plans for individual projects for Newark, including civic centers, recreation areas, commercial districts, hospitals and universities. From the Rutgers-Newark Graduate Department of Public Administration.

    Reinventing Newark: Visions of the City from the Twentieth Century. Marc Holzer, et.al., Newark, N.J., National Center for Public Productivity, 2005.
    Exhibition catalog.
    HT169.73 .N6R456 2005 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Architects

    Charles F. Cummings compiled a list of architects associated with Newark landmark buildings which appeared as a series of articles published in the Newark Star-Ledger in 1999:

    "Glory of the City's Designers Still Lives on in Their Buildings." March 11, 1999, p.3 [A-Ge]
    "More Architectural Gems: The Courthouse and Museum," March 18, 1999, p.4 [Gi-H]
    "The Glory and the Grandeur of the City's Religious Edifices." March 25, 1999, p.3 [J-Ra]
    "City is Known for Traditional Architecture and Innovative Designs." April 1, 1999, p.4 [Re-Z]

    Buildings and Sites

    Schnall, Kenneth B. A Survey of Ecclesiastical Architecture Built in Newark from 1810-1865. M.A. Thesis, Newark State College, 1965.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ NA5235.N533S

    "The Old Jail on New Street"
    History and photographic tour. The Essex County Jail is oldest public building in the county. Designed by John Haviland, it was built in 1837.

    Bataille, Edward F. Grace Church in Newark: The First 100 Years, 1837-1937. Newark, N.J., Kenny Press, 1937.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ BX5980 .N533GB

    Grace Church
    Designed by Richard Upjohn (1848). Photographs from New Jersey Churchscape.

    Wister, Robert James. St. Patrick's Pro-Cathedral: An Historical Reflection 1850-2000
    Illustrated history.

    Sabine, Julia. "The Mutual Benefit LIfe Insurance Buildings," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 75(3), July 1957, 180-196.
    Study of the various home office buildings erected by the company between 1847 and 1927.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Office of the Construction of Buildings. Specifications for Building the Custom-house at Newark, New Jersey; Including Accommodations for a Post Office and United States Court Room. Washington, D.C., A.O.P.Nicholson, Public Printer, 1855.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY NA4466 .N49 1855

    Sabine, Julia Elizabeth. The North Reformed Church, Newark, New Jersey: An Architectural Study. Newark, N.J., The Consistory, 1959.
    Church designed (1857/59) by William Henry Kirk.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY BX9731 .N6N8S

    One Hundred Fifty Years' History of the First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church, Newark, New Jersey. 1801-1951. 1951.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ BX6480 .N532F

    Peddie Memorial Baptist Church
    Image from New Jersey Churchscape.

    Dietz, Ulysses Grant. The Ballentine House and the Decorative Arts Galleries at the Newark Museum. Newark, N.J., The Musuem, 1994.
    Designed by architect George Edward Harny for the Ballantine family, the Ballantine House is last remaining 19th century residence on Washington Park. Currently part of the Newark Museum, the period rooms have been restored to about 1891 and are open to the public.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK NK460 .N48B356 1994

    Krueger-Scott Mansion
    New Jersey Historic Trust photo/description.

    Cathedral of the Sacred Heart: History
    A Virtual Tour is also available at this site.

    Branch Brook Park
    Description and history. Park originally (1895) designed by the firm of John Bogart and Nathan F. Barrett; design revised by Frederick Law and John Charles Olmsted (1900).

    Galop, Kathleen P. and Longendyck, Catharine. Branch Brook Park. Charleston, S.C., Arcadia, 2007.
    Part of the "Images of America" series.
    Dana Call Number: F144 .N5G35 2007 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Ely, John H. Specifications for the Construction of a New City Hall Building and Boiler House on Broad Street. Newark, N.J., 1902.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ NA4433 .N6N53 1901

    Essex County (N.J.) Building Commission. Essex County Court House, Newark, New Jersey. [Including] Report of Cass Gilbert, architect of new Court House. Description of mural paintings and statutary. Description of old Court House by Joseph L. Munn, counsel of Essex County Commission. Newark, 1908.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ F144.N533Es

    Newark Female Charitable Society [Image] 1886.

    Essex Club
    Designed by Guilbert and Betelle (1926), this is the current home of the New Jersey Historical Society. New Jersey Historic Trust photo/description.

    National Newark Building: Historical Photos
    One of the country's first skyscrapers, built in 1930 by Wilson and John Ely for the National Newark & Essex Banking Company.

    Commemorating the Opening of Pennsylvania Station, Newark, New Jersey, March 23, 1935
    Illustrated booklet produced for the opening ceremony. Section on "Architectural Features" includes McKim, Mead, and White's diagrammatic street-level plan, as well as a cross-section. Also includes a section on the "World's Greatest Railroad Lift Bridge."

    Dolan, Thomas. Newark and Its Gateway Complex.
    A NewarkMetro report. Social history of the Newark Gateway Center complex, built in four stages between 1971 and 1988.

    Webb, Michael. New Stage for a City: Designing the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Mulgrave, Vic., Images Publishing, 1998.
    Dana Call Number: NA6835 .N49N49 1998 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    PUBLIC ART AND ARTIFACTS

    Bzdak, Meredith Arms. Public Sculpture in New Jersey: Monuments to Collective Identity. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1999.
    Dana Call Number: NB230 .N5B98 1999

    On March 12, 1913 a Newark statute went into effect wherein "All questions concerning the location and architectural design of any work of art, statue, or any other memorial within such city, shall be referred to the City Plan Commission for its consideration and report before final action is taken thereon."

    Newark City Plan Commission. City Planning for Newark. Newark, N.J., L.J. Hardham Printing Co., 1913.
    Chapter II of the report deals with "Municipal Decorative Improvements," noting that "There is...one feature of civic improvement notably lacking in Newark, and that is the systematic grouping of public buildings, and a dignified treatment of prominent street intersections and plazas in connection therewith." [p.43]
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK NA9127. N6A3 1913

    Thurlow, Fearn. "Newark's Sculpture: A Survey of Public Monuments and Memorial Statuary," Newark Museum Quarterly 26(1), Winter 1975, 1-31.
    28 statues and memorial sculpture (1873-1972). Photographs of works; biographical information on the artists.
    Dana Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title.

    Parks, John A. "Modern Sculpture From Ancient Sources," American Artist 60, October 1996, 42-47.
    Diana Moore's monumental blindfolded head of "Justice," commissioned for the Newark federal courthouse plaza.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title Also available via Academic Search Premier Restricted Access.

    Columbus Monument in Washington Park

    Gutzon Borglum Monuments
    The 'Puritan and Indian' statue (1916) and the 'First Landing Party of the Founders of Newark' relief (1916).

    Schwartz, Barry. "Newark's Seated Lincoln," New Jersey History 113(3/4), 1995, 22-59.
    Gutzon Borglum's statue of Abraham Lincoln was dedicated in Newark in 1911.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    The Newark Lincoln, A Memorial. Newark, N.J., The Free Public Library for the Trustees of teh Van Horn Trust, 1912.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK E457.6 .N53 1912

    *NEW* Swayze, Francis. Address Delivered at the Unveiling of the Washington Statue at Newark November 2, 1912. [n.p.] Privately Printed, 1913.

    Stories of the Statues. Newark Museum Association, 1913-1917.
    #4 (1917): Bartolommeo Colleoni: A Statue by Verocchio. Includes information on the history of the copy in Newark's Clinton Park.

    Charles Cummings wrote about Newark's 'historical artifacts' from the 1,200-pound bronze 'Hiker' monument at McKinley Circle to the engine that once powered the Jackson Street Bridge:

    "Lost and Saved: Tale of Newark's Famed Statues, Sculptures," Newark Star-Ledger, July 15, 1999, p. 3
    "Artifacts Represent the Incredible Diversity that is Newark," Newark Star-Ledger, July 22, 1999, p. 3

    250th Anniversary

    *NEW* 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. Includes an introductory essay on poster art and the selection rationale and artist descriptions of entries. Illustrated.

    Federal Arts Projects

    New Deal Art, New Jersey. Text by Hildreth York. An exhibition organized by the Museum Training Program, Newark College of Arts and Sciences of Rutgers University and the Newark Museum. Newark, N.J. Rutgers University, Newark College of Arts and Sciences, 1980.
    This exhibition catalog and the York article in New Jersey History are basic resources for information on federal Works projects in New Jersey. Includes the history of the projects; discussion of individual works; selected bibliography; list of New Jersey artists; and a list of New Jersey murals. Many illustrations.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK N6530.N55A4 1980

    York, Hildreth. "The New Deal Art Projects in New Jersey," New Jersey History 98, Fall-Winter 1980, 133-174.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Gorky, Arshile. Murals Without Walls : Arshile Gorky's Aviation Murals Rediscovered. Ruth Bowman, guest curator. Newark, N.J. : Newark Museum, 1978.
    In 1935 Armenian-born Arshile Gorky was employed by the Federal Art Project to produce a large mural for the new Administration building at the Newark airport. Lost for decades, two of the ten panels (now in the Newark Museum) were rediscovered in the 1970s. O'Connor, Francis V. "Arshile Gorky's Newark Airport Murals: The History of Their Making," pp. 17-29; Jordan, Jim M. "The Place of the Newark Murals in Gorky's Art," pp. 47-64.
    Dana Call Number: ND237.G613A4 1978 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Gorky, Arshile. My Murals for the Newark Airport: An Interpretation.
    Essay originally written for a proposed report to Congress on the value of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP). A slightly different version of the essay appears in Murals Without Walls pp. 13-16.

    Kiesler, Frederick T. "Murals Without Walls," Art Front 3 (December 1936), 10-11.
    Contemporary account of Arshile Gorky's murals for the Newark Airport. Reprinted in Murals Without Walls.
    Special Collections Call Number: PERIII Shelved by Title

    McDowell, Eddie-Sue. Romuald Kraus: Justice and Other Work for the Works Progress Administration, 1933-1943. Thesis (M.A.), University of Louisville, 1992.
    Dana Call Number: NB237 .K73A68 1992a [NEWARK plus STACKS].

    Marqusee, Janet. Michael Lenson: Real and Surreal
    Biographical essay on painter and muralist Michael Lenson who headed up New Jersey's Mural and Easal Divison for the WPA, and later (1944-1946) served as Director of the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts.

    Phillips, Harlan. Interview with Michael Lenson
    Transcript of 1964 interview for the Archives of American Art. Focuses on Lenson's work with the WPA in New Jersey.

    WPA Posters

    Angelo Tartaglia. Poster Poster for an exhibit at the New Jersey Federal Art Gallery on William Street in Newark.
    Angelo Tartaglia. Poster Poster for a WPA regional exhibit at the Montclair Museum.
    Poster Poster for a WPA regional exhibit at the Federal Art Gallery in New York City, August 16 to September 8, 1938.
    Irving Russell. Poster Poster for an exhibit of New Jersey paintings at the Federal Art Gallery on William Street in Newark.

    Kea's Ark

    Kea's Ark [Image]

    Hamalian, Linda, "Kea Tawana: Or Who Would Build a Better Ark than Noah?" Black American Literature Forum 21(1/2), Spring/Summer 1987, 97-112.
    Biography of Kea Tawana and history of "Kea's Ark." Photographs of architectural drawings and the ark itself by Camille Billops. Based on an interview conducted by Hamalian and attended by Billops' art class from Rutgers-Newark in 1986. Available online Restricted Access

    Zeamon, John. "Dismantling a Dream: Newark's Lost Ark," The Record April 11, 1988. Available online via America's Newspapers Restricted Access

    Zeamon, John. "Sawdust Memories of the Ark: Ark Builder Moving On," The Record October 7, 1988. Available online via America's Newspapers Restricted Access

    Metz, Holly. "Where I Am Going: Kea's Ark, Newark, New Jersey." Southern Quarterly 39(1/2), Fall/Winter 2000/2001, 197-216.
    The Ark as "outsider architecture."
    Alexander Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Vergara, Camilo Jose. "Kea's Ark of Newark" Print 53(5), September/October 1999, 26.
    11 years after Newark officials forced her to dismantle the Ark, Tawana revisits Newark with Vergara.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title. Also available online Restricted Access

    Decorative and Industrial Arts

    Maffei, Nicolas. "John Cotton Dana and the Politics of Exhibiting Industrial Art in the U.S., 1909-1929," Journal of Design History 13(4), 2000, 301-17.
    John Cotton Dana, director of the Newark Museum from 1909 to 1929, pioneered the exhibition of mass-produced goods in museums.

    Jewelry

    Dietz, Ulysses Grant. The Glitter and the Gold: Fashioning America's Jewelry. Newark, N.J., Newark Museum, 1997.
    Published to accompany a Newark Museum exhibit (May 7-November 2, 1997) on the development of Newark as a center for the design and production of gold and silver jewelry designed primarily for the new affluent middle class.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK TS723 .G55 1997

    Dietz, Ulysses Grant and Zapata, Janet. "Beaux-arts Jewelry Made in Newark, New Jersey," Magazine Antiques 151, April 1997, 592-599.
    Art Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Zapata, Janet. "American Plique-a-Jour Enameling," Magazine Antiques 150, 1996, 812-21.
    Riker Brothers and Whiteside and Blank in Newark were two of the four jewelry firms creating objects using the plique-'a-jour enameling at the turn of the 20th century.
    Art Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Furniture

    Dietz, Ulysses Grant. "Edwin Van Antwerp's Jelliff Furniture," Magazine Antiques 137, April 1990, 906-13.
    John Jelliff and Company was the most important 19th century furniture manufacturer in Newark.
    Art Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    White, Margaret E. "John Jelliff, Cabinetmaker of Newark," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 76(4), October 1958, 297-300.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Dietz, Ulysses Grant. "A Major New Piece in the Jelliff Puzzle, Magazine Antiques 129, May 1986, 1096-1099.
    Art Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Skemer, Don C. "David Alling's Chair Manufactory [Craft Industrialization in Newark, New Jersey, 1801-1854]," Winterthur Portfolio 22, Spring 1987, 1-21.
    Art Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Silver

    Johnson, J. Stewart. Silver in Newark: A Newark 300th Anniversary Study. Newark, N.J., The Newark Museum Association, 1966.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK NK7112.J64 1966

    Other Newark Artists

    Gerdts, William H. Early New Jersey Artists: 18th and 19th Centuries. Exhibit held at the Newark Museum, March 7th-May 19th, 1957. Newark, Newark Museum Association, 1957.
    Includes works by many artists associated with Newark. Pages 19-29: Alphabetical list of New Jersey artists with NJ city of association; Page 30: Members of the Newark Sketch Club, 1894 and 1898.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK N6530 .N5N482 1957

    Newark Museum Association, Newark, N.J. Oliver Tarbell Eddy, 1799-1868: A Catalogue of His Works. Newark, 1950.
    Art Library Call Number: ND237 .E39N4

    Gerdts, William H. "Rembrandt Lockwood, an Artist of Newark," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 76(4), October 1958, 265-279.
    The career of portrait and religious painter Rembrandt Lockwood who lived and worked in Newark from 1847 to 1858. History and reception of Lockwood's monumental Last Judgement, exhibited in Newark's Concert Hall in 1854. List of Lockwood's known works.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Schumer, Ann Byrd. "Aspects of Lilly Martin Spencer's Career in Newark, New Jersey," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 77(4), October 1959, 244-255 and Frontispiece.
    Popular nineteenth-century painter Lilly Martin Spencer moved to Newark in April of 1858 and, having purchased Rembrandt Lockwood's studio, spent the next 21 years living and working there. Attributes two Ward family portraits in the Newark Museum to Spencer.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    *NEW* Lilly Martin Spencer Papers, 1825-1971
    Description of the Spencer materials available in the Archives of American Art (Smithsonian Institution).

    Francis, Marilyn G. "Mary Nimmo Moran: Painter-Etcher," Woman's Art Journal 4(2), Fall/Winter 1983-1984, 14-19.
    Art Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    A Catalogue of the Complete Etched Works of Thomas Moran, N.A. and M[ary] Nimmo Moran, S.P.E. on Exhibition at C. Klackner's. New York, 1889.
    Art Library Call Number: NE539 .M66A4 1889

    Brown, Joshua. "City on Display: A Newark Photographer and His Clients, 1890s-1940s," New Jersey History 121 (1/4), 2003, 4-22.
    From the 1890s to the 1940s commercial photographer William F. Cone created an extensive visual record of Newark.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Mecklenburg, Virginia M. John R. Grabach: Seventy Years an Artist. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980.
    While he lived much of his life in Irvington, Grabach was born (1886) and raised in Newark and taught at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK N6537 .G67A4 1980

    Cummings, Charles F. "3 Masters of the Brush Made the Cityscape Their Own Scene." Newark Star-Ledger, January 14, 1999, p. 2.
    Michael Lenson, Henry Gasser and Adolf Konrad.

    Henry Gasser: Beyond City Limits
    Essay on the Newark artist (1909-1981) by Gary T. Erbe and images of many of the works from an exhibit created by the Butler Institute of American Art and shown at the Morris Museum in Morristown and at the Walsh Library Gallery at Seton Hall University [April 1 through June 28, 2004].

    "Henry Gasser's Paintings of Newark," American Artist 30 (9), November 1966, 48-53; 75-77.
    The six paintings commissioned by Prudential commemorating Newark's 300th anniversary plus earlier paintings exhibited for the occassion. Includes a commentary by the artist on the technique used for the paintings as well as some anecdotes from "painting on the street."
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    To Commemorate the 300th Anniversary of the City of Newark the Prudential Insurance Company of America Presents an Exhibition of Watercolors by Henry Gasser. Newark, N.J., Prudential, 1966.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK ND1839 .G25 1966

    *NEW* Henry Gasser Papers, 1939-1972
    Brief description of the Gasser papers at the Archives of American Art (Smithsonian Institution).

    Konrad, Adolf. An Artist Looks at Newark An exhibition in connection with the 300th anniversary of the city of Newark, the Newark Museum, April 16-September 5, 1966. Newark, N.J. : Newark Museum, 1966.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6N48

    Mitnick, Barbara. The Realist Vision of Adolf Konrad: A Retrospective. Morristown, N.J., Morris Museum, 1992.
    Catalog of exhibition held at the Morristown Museum March 29-May 24, 1992 of the work of the 'painter-laureate of Newark.'
    Art Library Call Number: ND237 .K599A4 1992

    Creating and Recreating the City

    Shaping the City

    Snyder, John P. "The Bounds of Newark: Tract, Township and City," New Jersey History 86(2), Summer 1968, 92-105.
    Newark's geographical boundaries, 1667-1967.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Rankin, Edward S. Indian Trails and City Streets. Montclair, N.J., The Globe Press, 1927.
    Part I.: The Old Newark. Part II: Stories of Newark Streets. Rankin was Newark's Chief Engineer in the Division of Sewers between 1929 and 1945. In his essay on "Prehistoric Highways" [pp.75-79] Rankin proposes that Newark's earliest streets were laid out over what were originally Indian trails.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6R2

    Rankin, Edward S. Running Brooks and Other Sketches of Early Newark. Somerville, N.J., Unionist-Gazette, 1930.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6R22

    Gubler, Jacques. "Notes on Newark's Urban History," Architecture et comportement/Architecture & Behaviour 4(2), 1988, 157-174.
    "The originality of Newark's city plan lies in the way which the colonial settlement has been superimposed upon the Indian land pattern." Expands on the theory of Edward Rankin.

    Historical Map of Newark, New Jersey, 1666-1916
    Compiled for the 250th celebration by Edward S. Rankin, C.E., August 1916, revised January 1918.

    Official City Map [2003]

    Planning the City

      Under authority of the act of March 30, 1911, enabling cities of the first 
class to appoint City Plan Commissions, on June 1, 1911 Mayor Haussling appointed 
the following citizens as members of the Newark City Plan Commission to serve for 
a term of one year:
	Frederic Bigelow    John Cotton Dana    Christian W. Feigenspan
	David Grotta        Frederick J. Keer   John H. Kehoe
	Austen H. McGregor  Samuel E. Robertson Gustavus Staehlin

    In 1914 Newark hired Harland Bartholomew as the first full-time municipally employed city planner in the United States. He was responsible for the first comprehensive Newark city plan (completed 1915); the 1947 Newark plan was also prepared by his firm, Harland Bartholomew & Associates.

    Lovelace, Eldridge. Harland Bartholomew: His Contributions to American Urban Planning. University of Illinois, 1993.

    Johnston, Norman John. Harland Bartholomew: His Comprehensive Plans and Science of Planning. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1964.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK NA9128 .B3J6 1964a

    Bartholomew, Harland. City Planning and its Relation to the American Municipality. 1915? 8pp.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 HT165.52 .B37 1915

    Harland Bartholomew and Associates Collection
    Guide to the Harland Bartholomew and Associates papers at Washington University in St. Louis.

    1915 Comprehensive Plan

    Newark. City Plan Commission. Comprehensive Plan of Newark. Newark, N.J., 1915.
    Streets and transportation; Recreation and civic beauty; Housing and public control of private development; and Planning the greater city and a program for future work.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK NA9127 .N6A3 1915

    Related Materials

    Bartholomew, Harland. Trolley Transportation, City of Newark, N.J. Report to the City Plan Commission. Newark, 1913.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLX TF725 .N6G6

    *NEW* Goodrich, E.P. and Ford, George B. Housing Report to The City Plan Commission of Newark, N.J.. Newark N.J., Press of Matthew Plum, 1913.

    Newark City Plan Commission. City Planning for Newark. Newark, N.J., L.J. Hardham Printing Co., 1913.
    Summarizes the work of the City Plan Commission over two and one-half years.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK NA9127. N6A3 1913

    Bartholomew, Harland. "Publicity and the City Plan," The American City 11, November 1914, 380-382.
    Annex Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Newark. City Plan Commission. A Public Recreation System for Newark: Suggestions and Recommendations by the City Plan Commission. Newark, N.J., 1915.
    "A brief review, from the city-planning standpoint, of the value of a comprehensive system of public recreation." Includes tables: Table 1: Public Baths, 1914; Table 2: Public Recreation by Wards, 1914; Table 3: Public Playgrounds, 1914. Available online from the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library.
    Viewing requires the DjVu Browser Plug-in [free download].

    1947 Master Plan

    Harland Bartholomew Associates. The Master Plan for the Physical Development of the City of Newark. Prepared for the Newark (N.J.) Central Planning Board. Newark, 1947.
    Dana Call Number: NA9127 .N6N6 (NEWARK plus STACKS)

    Related Materials

    Newark. Central Planning Board. A Preliminary Report on the Scope of the City Plan. No.1 of a Series. Newark, N.J., 1944.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK TD25 .N64N4 1944

    Newark. Central Planning Board. A Preliminary Report on Past, Present and Probable Future Population for Newark, New Jersey. Newark, 1944.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 HB3527 .N6N49 1944

    Newark. Central Planning Board. A Preliminary Report on the Background and Character of the City. Newark, 1944.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 HC108 .N6N49 1944

    Harland Bartholomew & Associates. A Preliminary Report on Parks, Playgrounds, Recreational Facilities and Schools for Newark, New Jersey. Prepared for the Newark Central Planning Board. Newark, 1946.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY3 GV54 .N6H37 1947

    Newark. Central Planning Board. A Preliminary Report on the Proposed Military Park Garage for Newark, New Jersey. Newark, 1946.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 TL175 .N48 1946

    "The Newark Plan," American Planning and Civic Annual 1947/48, 128-152.
    Transcript of a National Citizens' Conference on Planning session held in Newark in May 1948. "Introduction," Mayor Vincent J. Murphy, pp.128-130; "The Central Planning Board," Commissioner Peter A. Cavicchia, pp. 131-132; "The Master Plan of Newark, New Jersey," Harry W. Alexander (Harland Bartholomew & Associates), pp. 132-144; "Discussion," J. Anton Hagios (Citizens' Advisory Committee), pp.144-150; "General Discussion," Robert F. Foeller (Planner), pp.150-152.
    Alexander Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Burnett, John R. "Newark Citizens Study the Plan," American Planning and Civic Annual 1947/48, 170-172.
    On Newark's program to generate citizen interest in the implementation of the Master Plan. Burnett was the Executive Secretary of Newark's Central Planning Board.
    Alexander Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    1964 Master Plan

    Newark (N.J.). Division of City Planning. Master Plan, 1964, City of Newark, N.J. Prepared for the Division of City Planning by Candeub, Fleissig, Adley and Associates. Newark, Central Planning Board, 1965.
    Online via the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library. Viewing requires the DjVu Browser Plug-in [free download]. Also available at
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HT168 .N55N55 1964

    1978 Master Plan

    Newark (N.J.). Mayor's Policy and Development Office. Newark Master Plan. Consultants, Coopers & Lybrand, Barton-Aschman Associates, Inc. Newark, N.J., 1978.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HT168 .N55M37

    1990 Master Plan

    Newark (N.J.). Newark's Master Plan: Policies and Strategies for the Future. Newark, Division of City Planning, 1990.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N5N49 1990

    2004 Master Plan

    Land Use Element of the Master Plan for the City of Newark. Prepared by the City of Newark Department of Economic and Housing Development and Phillips Preiss Shapiro Associates, Inc. for the Central Planning Board. Newark, 2004.
    "The Land Use Element is the only element mandated by the State's Municipal Land Use law to appear in a Master Plan...While the Land Use Element is ultimately about the long term physical development of the City, this plan recognizes that there are many other issues facing Newark, ranging from schools, to parks, to housing. This plan has been specifically crafted so that the City has both the framework and flexibility necessary to address these and other issues." Chapter 4, Land Use Trends and Initiatives, is primarily devoted to synopses of recent major studies and proposals relating to Newark and their implications for the Master Plan and for zoning.

    Related Materials

    Mathur, 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 Restricted Access

    Decline, Development and Renewal

    Post World War II

    Craster, Charles V. "Slum Clearance: The Newark Plan," American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health 34, September 1944, 935-940.
    A Newark ordinance passed on July 14, 1943 created an office of Supervisor of Rehabilitation of Dwellings to be held by the city Health Officer. "Under this ordianance, any slum building which could not be rehabilitated for a sum not exceeding 50 per cent of the assessed valuation was required to be demolished...the Supervisor could order the rehabilitation of any slum building should the owner refuse to do so."
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Housing Authority of the City of Newark. The Cost of Slums in Newark. Newark, N.J., 1946
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY HV4046 .N6R8

    McGuire, Dan. The West Side Park Neighborhood: A Historical Perspective. Report on behalf of the Corinthian Housing Development Corporation, New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Center for Urban Policy Research Project Community, May 12, 1997.
    Focuses on the "changing socioeconomic conditions in the West Side Park neighborhood between WWII and 1970, as well as on specific historic buildings and resources that exist today." Includes data from 1930 to 1989. Done in conjunction with the Strategic Revitalization Plan for the West Side Community of Newark, N.J.

    Kaplan, Harold. The Politics of Slum Clearance: A Study of Urban Renewal in Newark, New Jersey. Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, 1961.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ HT177 .N54K37 1961a

    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]

    Market 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 .N55A2

    Newark, N.J. Commission for Neighborhood Conservation and Rehabilitation. Newark Urban Renewal Plan: A Demonstration Grant Project: Conservation, Rehabilitation, Clearance. Newark, Central Planning Board, 1959.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ HT177 .N6N44 1959

    The Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties

    *NEW* Rabig, Julia. Broken Deal: Devolution, Development and Civil Society in Newark, New Jersey, 1960-1990. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
    "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]

    Newark, N.J. Central Planning Board. Re: New Newark: A Continuing Ten-Year Program. Final Report. Prepared with the assistance of the Newark Commission for Neighborhood Conservation and Rehabilitation. Newark, 1961.
    "[This report] is divided into three parts: principal elements of a continuing 10-year renewal program; community elements; and methods and techniques. This study embodies the experience and knowledge gained from an extensive analysis of Newark's renewal problems."
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK NA9127 .N6A28 1961

    Newark, N.J. Division of City Planning. Newark Urban Renewal Areas. Newark, October, 1963.
    Data and status of all urban renewal projects current in October 1963. Online via the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library. Viewing requires the DjVu Browser Plug-in [free download].

    Newark, N.J. Project Conference Committee. Capital Program...As Recommended by the Mayor. Newark, N.J., Division of City Planning, 1964-
    Annual capital improvement program report.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ HJ9283 .N57A3 1964/69; 1965/70; 1966/71; 1968/73; 1972/77

    "A Large City's Capital Improvement Program Newark's 1964-1969 Plan," New Jersey Municipalities 41, June 1964, 17-23.
    Excerpts from Newark's 1964/69 Capital Program report.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Community Renewal Program (Newark, N.J.). Marketability Material for Urban Land Institute Panel: Second Meeting, September 20, 21, 22, 1965. Newark, The Housing Authority, 1965.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HT177 .N54H6

    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.

    Nortman, P. Bernard. An Economic Blueprint for Newark: The Overall Economic Development Program. Newark, N.J., Office of Economic Development, 1968.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HC108 .N6N67 1968

    Newark, N.J. Community Development Administration. Newark Model Cities Program. Newark, N.J., 1969. 3 vols.
    Contents: Vol. 1: Problem Analysis. Goals and Program Approaches. Strategy. Vol. 2: Five Year Forecast. Vol. 3: First Year Action Program.
    Dana Call Number: HT177 .N54N5 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Nortman, P. Bernard. A Blueprint for Solving New Jersey's Fiscal & Tax Problems: A Guideline for Action for the State, for Newark and all Other Municipalities in New Jersey. Newark, Office of Economic Development, 1970.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY3 HJ585 .N67 1970

    Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Newark: Model Cities, Architectural & Environmental Design, Public Amenities Program & Specific Projects: Final Report. Washington, 1971.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK NA9127 .N6S55 1971

    Centaur Management Consultants. Economic Development Framework for the City of Newark, New Jersey. Prepared for the Overall Economic Development Program Committee, Inc., of Newark, New Jersey. Washington, D.C., 1973.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HC108 .N6C46 1973

    Louis, Arthur M. " The Worst American City: A Scientific Study to Confirm or Deny Your Prejudices," Harper's Magazine 250(1496), January 1975, 67-71.
    Considers the nation's fifty largest cities in 24 categories. Found that "[Newark] ranked among the worst five cities in no fewer than nineteen of the twenty-four categories, and it was dead last in nine of them."
    Off-Campus Access Restricted Access

    Newark, N.J. Mayor's Policy and Development Office. Division of Review and Planning. Urban Development Policy Newark. Newark, 1975.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HT177 .N54N49

    Abeles, Schwartz and Associates. South Orange Avenue Commercial Zone Improvement Study. Newark, Newark Economic Development Corporation, 1976.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HT177 .N54A25

    Grad Partnership. University City: New Town-In Town, Newark, New Jersey. Newark, N.J., 1976. 2 vols.
    Contents: Vol.1: Phase A. Analysis of Market Demands, Land Use and Activitiy Patterns. Vol.2: Phase B. Development of Concept Design for Nine Block Area.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HT177 .N6G7 1976

    Greater Newark Chamber of Commerce. The Newark Experience, 1967-1977. Newark, N.J., 1977.
    "The "Newark Experience" is an 11-category, 10-year review of the city's progress in the areas of economic development, transportation, municipal finance, protective services, residential development, education, health care, hospital development, recreation and parks, preservation of our heritage, and cultural activities." Available online as part of the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library. Viewing requires the DjVu Browser Plug-in [free download]. Also available at
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HC108 .N6G7

    Hughes, Mark Alan. "Employment Decentralization and Accessibility: A Strategy for Stimulating Regional Mobility," Journal of the American Planning Association 57(3), Summer 1991, 288-298.
    "During the 1980s, northern New Jersey underwent a development surge that extended the metropolitan periphery and dramatically shifted employment across a larger and more dispersed set of locations throughout the region. This article explores the implications of this emerging settlement structure for employment accessibility from the region's center, the city of Newark."
    Off-Campus Access Restricted Access
    Note: Electronic version is HTML only and lacks important graphs and maps. Complete article available at: Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Zabala, Rafael. "Enterprise Renaissance Revitalizes Newark, N.J.," Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy 10, Winter 1995, 112-115.
    At the end of 1984, twenty percent of Newark was designated as the first enterprise zone in New Jersey. Results of the enterprise zone program.
    Robeson (Camden) Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    The 1990s: Start With the Neighborhood

    Newman, Kathe. "Newark, Decline and Avoidance, Renaissance and Desire: From Disinvestment to Reinvestment," Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science 594, July 2004, 34-48.
    In the 1990s local governments came to recognize the importance of neighborhood revitalization for economic development. Looks at the dynamics of revitalization efforts in two of Newark's poorest neighborhoods, West Side Park and Brick Towers, and community efforts to save Brick Towers.
    Off- Campus Access Restricted Access

    Newman, Kathe and Ashton, Philip. "Neoliberal Urban Policy and New Paths of Neighborhood Change in the American Inner City," Environment and Planning A 36(7), 2004, 1151-1172.
    Focusing on the West Side Park neighborhood in Newark, explores the process of neighborhood change that emerged during the 1990s when a number of very-low income urban neighborhoods became sites for reinvestment.
    Journal volume not owned by the Rutgers Libraries

    Strategic Revitalization Plan for the West Side Community of Newark, NJ. Report on behalf of the Corinthian Housing Development Corporation, New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Center for Urban Policy Research Project Community, May 12, 1997.

    An Exploratory Study to Establish a Special Improvement District on Springfield and South Orange Avenues, Newark NJ. Report to the Corinthian Housing Development Corporation and New Community Corporation. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Center for Urban Policy Research Project Community, May 11, 1998.

    Roseville, Newark: Revitalizing a Community. Report to the Hispanic Development Corporation. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Center for Urban Policy Research Project Community, May 29, 1996.

    Della Fave, Joseph. Ironbound. Powerpoint presentation for Abbott School Construction as a Catalyst for Community Development, a symposium sponsored by the Community Development Institute, New Brunswick, N.J., May 16, 2003.
    Focus on the need for expanded recreation facilities for schools in the Ironbound section of Newark. Includes a map of the Ironbound Community Master Plan (2001). Della Fave is the Executive Director of the Ironbound Community Corporation.

    Elliot, Norbert L, Quinless, Frances W, and Parietti, Elizabeth S. "Assessment of a Newark Neighborhood: Process and Outcomes," Journal of Community Health Nursing 17(4), Winter 2000, 211-224.
    "In 1996, the members of the St. Columba Collaboration conducted a grassroots neighborhood assessment of a Hispanic area in Newark Youth violence, domestic violence, crime, and lack of job skills surpassed poor housing and chronic health problems, including HIV/AIDS and drug and alcohol addiction, as the most noted neighborhood problems." As a result of the needs assessment, over the next three years the St. Columba Collaboration changed its strategic course and refocused its programs and services.
    Off-Campus Access Restricted Access

    Into the 21st Century

    Newark in the 21st Century Task Force. Final Report. Newark, N.J., 2000.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6F97 2000

    *NEW* Council for Higher Education in Newark: Economic Impact Report. Submitted by the Roper Group in association with A.Ilan Consulting. July 2001.
    The four members of the Council for Higher Education in Newark (CHEN), Rutgers University-Newark, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and Essex Community College, account for 9 percent of all employment in Newark. Examines the direct and indirect economic impact of higher education on Newark and New Jersey, as well as CHEN contributions to community development.

    Destination: Newark, Year 2011. Proceedings of the Mayor's Summit on the Development of University/Business Partnerships, December 12, 2001.
    "The papers collected in this volume were originally prepared for a conference on Newark's economic development sponsored by the Council for Higher Education in Newark, a longstanding alliance of the four public higher education institutions of Newark's University Heights district. They illustrate the crucial role of higher education and research in Newark's continuing revitalization."

    Destination: Newark, Year 2013. Proceedings of the 2nd CHEN Summit on the Development of University/Business Partnerships, March 20, 2003.

    Mathur, Navdeep. "Revitalization: Newark's Tale of Two Cities," New Jersey Reporter April 2002.

    Mathur, 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]

    Waterfront Development

    Wallace, Roberts & Todd. A Proposal for a Development Plan for an Urban Park/Business Complex on the Newark Passaic Riverfront to the City of Newark. Philadelphia, Pa., 1982.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ HT168 .N6W35 1982

    Wallace, Roberts & Todd. Technical Memorandum No. 1: Alternative Development Concepts for the Newark Passaic Riverfront. Philadelphia, Pa., September 1982.
    "An analysis of existing conditions and the generation and testing of alternative concepts for the long-range redevelopment of the site." Available online as part of the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library. Viewing requires the DjVu Browser Plug-in [free download].

    Wallace, Roberts & Todd. A Development Plan for the Newark Passaic Riverfront, Downtown Newark, New Jersey: Final Report. Philadelphia, Pa., 1983.
    "This report is the result of a two phase study of approximately one mile of Passaic River frontage in Newark...The first phase of work consisted of an analysis of existing conditions in the general study area...and the generation and testing of alternative concepts for the long-range redevelopment of the northern two-thirds of the site, which is adjacent to Newark's Central Business District. The second phase focused on the central portion of the overall study area (the area between Penn Station and Saybrook Place) and proposed a more detailed plan for the long-range redevelopment of the riverfront area of downtown Newark." Available online as part of the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library. Viewing requires the DjVu Browser Plug-in [free download]. Also available at
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6W34 1983

    Joseph G. Minish Passaic River Waterfront Park and Historic Area, Newark, NJ
    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (New York District) Fact Sheet.

    Newark Waterfront: Visioning a Waterfront Place for Downtown Newark
    "The Newark Waterfront Community Access Study (NWCAS) is a Public Outreach Program being implemented by the New Jersey Department of Transportation to determine pedestrian access links from Downtown Newark to the Passaic Riverfront park across McCarter Highway (Route 21), which is currently being widened and realigned, from Raymond Boulevard to Bridge Street in Newark's central business district." (2003)

    Imagine Newark's Waterfront: Newark Waterfront Access Study. New York, Project for Public Spaces Inc., December 2003. [DRAFT]

    The Community Development Corporation

    Newark Community Development Corporations
    Newark CDCs that have received support from the Greater Newark and Jersey City LISC. Directory, includes a mission statement.

    *NEW* Rabig, Julia. What's the Matter With Newark?," Shelterforce Fall 2008.
    Traces the development of CDCs in Newark.

    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 Restricted Access

    The New Community Corporation

    Linder, William J. An Urban Community Development Model. Thesis (Ph.D.), Fordham University, 1988.
    Dana Call Number: HN79 .N53C6 1988a [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Farbstein, Jay and Wener, Richard. Rebuilding Communities: Re-Creating Urban Excellence. 1993 Rudy Bruner Award for Excellence in the Urban Environment. New York, N.Y., Bruner Foundation, 1993.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HT167 .F37 1993

    Lewis, Sylvia. "Tough Love Works in Newark," Planning 59(10), October 1993, 24-29.
    The work of the New Community Corporation (NCC) and its director, Monsignor William Linder, in Newark.
    Off-Campus Access Restricted Access

    Peirce, Neal R. Flashy Downtown Revival Rests on Neighborhoods November 27, 2000
    Suggests that downtown Newark's apparent comeback would probably not have succeeded without the NCC's work in the Central Ward.

    Building Community: The Work of the New Community Corporation. A Report Prepared by the Community Development Studio, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Spring 2002.
    History, projects, and lessons learned.

    Mapping the Future of Community Development: Examining the Impact of Newark's Tax Revaluation on New Community Corporation. Prepared by the Community Development Studio, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Spring 2003.
    Looks at the impact on the New Community Corporation, as well as on Newark property owners, resulting from the state-mandated revaluation of Newark's property base in 2003. Includes maps showing current NCC properties, as well as proposed future development sites.

    *NEW* Ehrenhalt, Alan. "Assessments: New Life in Newark," Governing.com July 2007

    Luring People Back: Cultural Development

    Cole, David B. " Artists and Urban Redevelopment," Geographical Review 77(4), October 1987, 391-407.
    Study of the role of artists in changing landuse patterns in Hoboken, Jersey City, and Newark.
    Off-Campus Access Restricted Access

    Taylor, Marilyn. "Newark and the Performing Arts," IN The Inner City: A Handbook for Renewal. Edited by Roger L. Kemp. Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland & Company, 2001. pp. 295-301.
    Originally published as "Newark Turns the Corner," Urban Land 57(2), 1998.
    Dana Call Number: HT175 .I55 2001

    Strom, Elizabeth. Cultural Policy as Development Policy: Evidence from the United States. Newark, N.J., Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies, June 2002.
    Looks at changes in U.S. cultural policies and projects which have been reframed to emphasize their economic benefits to cities. Focues on Newark, Philadelphia, and Seattle.

    Strom, Elizabeth. "Let's Put on a Show! Performing Arts and Urban Revitalization in Newark, New Jersey," Journal of Urban Affairs 21(4), 1999, 423-35.
    The development and impact of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.
    Off Campus Access Restricted Access

    *NEW* Arts & Economic Prosperity III: The Economic Impact of Nonprofit Arts and Culture Organizations and Their Audiences in the City of Newark, NJ. Americans for the Arts, 2007.
    Part of a economic impact study conducted in 156 U.S. communities and regions. Summary Findings [Table]

    Luring People Back: Sports Facilities

    Stevenson, 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.

    Heinzelman, Bill. Baseball, the Newark Bears and the Image of a City
    A Newark Metro Report.

    Newark Housing

    Forresta, Ronald A. " The Evolution of the Modern Urban Core: The Implications of Newark's Late Nineteenth-Century Housing and Population Patterns," 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.72-92. Also available at
    Dana Call Number: Ref. F145 .A1N48 1976

    *NEW* Goodrich, E.P. and Ford, George B. Housing Report to The City Plan Commission of Newark, N.J.. Newark N.J., Press of Matthew Plum, 1913.

    "Tent City to Provide Housing?," American Architect 115(2262), April 30, 1919, 616.
    Proposal to build a 'tent city' to temporarily relieve housing congestion in Newark. Restricted Access

    "The House Shortage--Newark, New Jersey, Relieves the Situation by Erecting a 'Tent City' Outlook, June 2, 1920, 218. Photograph Restricted Access

    Housing Authority of the City of Newark. Survey of Housing Conditions in Newark. Newark, N.J., 1940.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HD7304 .N6A4

    Sasaki, Yutaka. "'But Not Next Door': Housing Discrimination and the Emergence of the 'Second Ghetto' in Newark, New Jersey After World War II" The Japanese Journal of American Studies No. 5, 1993-94, 113-135.
    Looks at the forces behind black residential segregation in Newark central city neighborhoods between 1940 and 1960.

    Housing Authority of the City of Newark. Migrant War Workers in Newark. Newark, N.J., 1944.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HD5726 .N53H6

    *UPDATED* Housing Authority of the City of Newark. Study of the Social Effects of Public Housing in Newark, N.J.. Newark, N.J., 1944. Reprint
    Study conducted by Jay Rumney and Sara Shuman for the Housing Authority of the City of Newark.
    NEWARK HD7304 .N6H6 2005

    Housing Authority of the City of Newark. The Cost of Slums in Newark. Newark, N.J., 1946
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY HV4046 .N6R8

    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]

    United States. Federal Housing Administration. Analysis of the Newark, New Jersey Housing Market as of May 1, 1965. Washington, D.C., 1965.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 HD7304 .N6U55 1961

    Public Housing in Newark's Central Ward. A report by the New Jersey State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, 1968.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HD7314.N6A3

    Towers of Frustration [Vidiorecording]. Washington, D.C., Public Television Library, 1971.
    "Focuses on the Stella Wright housing project in Newark, N.J. Explores the problems confronting residents in many of the country's large, impersonal and crime-ridden public housing projects.
    Media Call Number: VIDEO D-212

    Sternlieb, George. The Tenement Landlord. New Brunswick, N.J., Urban Studies Center, 1966.
    Dana Call Number: HD7304 .N6S74 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Sternlieb, George and Indik, Bernard. "Housing Vacancy Analysis," Land Economics 45(1), February 1969, 117-121.
    Analysis of housing vacancies in Newark 1960-1967.
    Off Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access

    Burchell, Robert W. Housing Costs and Housing Restraints: Newark, New Jersey. By Robert W. Burchell, James W. Hughes, and George Sternlieb. New Brunswick, N.J., Center for Urban Policy Research, 1970.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HD7304 .N5B78

    Sternlieb, George. Residential Abandonment: The Tenement Landlord Revisited. By George Sternlieb and Robert W. Hughes. New Brunswick, Center for Urban Policy Research, 1973.
    Dana Call Number: HD7304 .N6S68 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Sternlieb, George et. al. "Housing Abandonment in the Urban Core," Journal of the American Institute of Planners 40(5), 1974, 321-332.
    Examines the abandonment decisions of a sample of Newark landlords.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Rutgers University, Newark. Office of Newark Studies. Residential Mortgage Lending in the City of Newark, 1974-1975. Newark, N.J., 1976.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK HG2040.5 .U6N55

    James, Franklin J. Race, Housing Value and Housing Abandonment: A Case Study of Newark. Thesis (Ph.D.), Columbia University, 1980.
    Dana Call Number: HD7288.85 .N42J35 1980a [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Rich, Jonathan M. "Municipal Boundaries in a Discriminatory Housing Market: An Example of Racial Leapfrogging," Urban Studies 21(1), February 1984, 31-40.
    Examines a pattern of "leapfrogging" whereby Newark blacks moved into East Orange jumping over a more affluent neighborhood in the inner city in the process. Restricted Access

    *NEW* Koppel, Meg. Accessible Housing for Low-Income Tenants With Physical Disabilities Following the 1988 Fair Housing Act Ammendments: Outcome and Processes in Four Cities: A Dissertation in Social Welfare. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2006.
    Dana Call Number: HD7287.95 .U6K67 2006a [NEWARK plus STACKS] In Process

    Maslow-Armand, Laura. "The Newark Tenant Rent Strike: Public Housing Policy and Black Municipal Governance," Patterns of Prejudice 20(4), 1986, 17-30.
    Volume not owned by the Rutgers Libraries

    Last of 'the Projects' Comes Tumbling Down.
    Short history and brief video of the demolition of the last high-rise public housing project in Newark, the 1959 Stella Wright Homes.

    Franck, Karen A. and Mostoller, Michael. "From Courts to Open Space to Streets: Changes in the Site Design of U.S. Public Housing," Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 12, Autumn 1995, 186-220.
    Based on a study of public housing in Newark, examines how the principles of public hoursing design have changed over the last 60 years.

    Sidney, Mara S. "The Case of Newark, USA" IN Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report on Human Settlements 2003. UN-Habitat, Development Planning Unit, 2003.
    One of a "set of studies of slum conditions, policies and strategies...compiled in preparation for the United Nations Global Report on Human Settlements 2003 The Challenge of Slums."

    Newman, Kathe and Wyly, Elvin K. " Geographies of Mortgage Market Segmentation: The Case of Essex County, New Jersey," Housing Studies 19(1), January 2004, 53-83.
    Focusing on Newark and its surrounding suburbs, analyses the market penetration of subprime lending institutions, assesses the role of borrower characteristics, and analyses the patterns of mortgage 'pre-foreclosures.'
    Off-Campus Access Restricted Access

    Newman, Kathe. Newark, Decline and Avoidance, Renaissance and Desire: From Disinvestment to Reinvestment, Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science 594, July 2004, 34-48.
    In the 1990s local governments came to recognize the importance of neighborhood revitalization for economic development. Looks at the dynamics of revitalization efforts in two of Newark s poorest neighborhoods, West Side Park and Brick Towers, and community efforts to save Brick Towers.
    Off-Campus Access Restricted Access

    "Newark Housing" in NJIT's ArchLib.
    Abstracts of newspaper articles relating to Newark housing from 1982 to the present.

    Health *UPDATED*

  • Public Health
  • Hospitals
  • Epidemics
  • Diseases
  • Health Statistics
  • Health Planning
  • Environmental Health

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    Public Health
    New Jersey
    Newark

    New Jersey

    Cowen, David L. Medicine and Health in New Jersey: A History. Princeton, D. Van Nostrand Co., 1964.
    The standard history of medical practice and public health in New Jersey.
    Dana Call Number: R283 .C69

    Cowan, David L. Medicine in Revolutionary New Jersey. New Jersey's Revolutionary Experience 12. Trenton, New Jersey Historical Commission, 1975.

    Newark

    Stuart Galishoff has published the two basic books on the public health history of Newark:

    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.). Department of Health and Welfare. Newark Now, 1970-1975: Positive Health Trends and Developments. Newark, 1976.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK RA114 .N47 1976

    Sanitation
    Water Supply

    Sanitation

    Holden, Edgar. Mortality and Sanitary Record of Newark, N.J. from 1859 to 1879. A report presented to the president and directors of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., January , 1880.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ HB1357 .N6H6

    Newark (N.J.). Board of Health. The Sanitary Code Adopted by the Board of Health of the City of Newark, N.J., June, 1888. Newark, N.J., Campbell & Baker, printers and stationers, 1888. 31 pages.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY KFN2154.1.A43N5 1888

    *NEW* Newark (N.J.). Board of Health. Revised Ordinances of the Board of Health of the City of Newark, Being the Sanitary Code of Said City. Adopted January 3, 1902.

    Galishoff, Stuart. "Drainage, Disease, Comfort, and Class: A History of Newark's Sewers," Societas 6(2), 1976, 121-138.
    Alexander Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Modica, Glenn R. The History of the Newark Sewer System. A Project of the City of Newark, Department of Water and Sewer Utilities, Newark, New Jersey. Cranbury, N.J., Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc., 2001.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK TD525 .N6M63 2001

    Water Supply

    Moore, Terrence D. and Barry, Mildred E. A Revised Policy Concerning Newark's Pequannock Watershed Newark, N.J., Rutgers the State University, 1972.
    Dana Call Number: TD225 .N4M6 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Nichols, William D. Ground-water Resources of Essex County, New Jersey. Trenton, N.J., Department of Conservation and Economic Development, Division of Water Policy and Supply, 1968.
    Dana Call Number: TD224 .N5A223 no.28 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Herpers, Henry and Barksdale, Henry C. Preliminary Report on the Geology and Ground-Water Supply of the Newark, New Jersey Area. Trenton, N.J., Department of Comservation and Economic Development, Division of Water Policy and Supply, 1951.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK TD224 .N5A223 no.10

    Galishoff, Stuart. "Triump and Failure: The American Response to the Urban Water Supply Problem, 1860-1923," IN Pollution and Reform in American Cities 1870-1930. Edited by Martin V. Melosi. Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press, 1980. pp. 35-57.
    The development of urban water supplies in Atlanta, Chicago, and Newark.
    Alexander Library Call Number: TD180 .P63 1980

    Jacobson, Daniel. "The Pollution Problem of the Passaic River," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 76(3), July 1958, 186-198.
    Traces the gradual pollution of Newark's water supply in the 19th century.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Galishoff, Stuart. "The Passaic Valley Trunk Sewer," New Jersey History 88(4), Winter 1970, 197-214. Reprinted in Safeguarding the Public Health: Newark, 1895-1918. Westport, Conn., 1975, pp. 54-67.
    The Passaic river, which for many years served both as a water supply and major recreational site for Newark and the surrounding area, by the latter part of the 19th century had been polluted to the point that it "had the characteristics of an open sewer." Traces efforts to mitigate the pollution, culminiating in the opening of the Passaic Valley Trunk Sewer in 1924.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Report to the Newark Aqueduct Board, Upon the Subject of a Supply of Water for the City of Newark. By George H. Bailey, Engineer. Newark, N.J., Printed at the Daily Advertiser Office, 1861.

    Southard, L. "Essex Water Supply; Drainage and Sewerage of the City of Newark and Their Relation to the Causation of Disease," Transactions of the Medical Society of New Jersey 1877, 192-200.
    Annex Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Newark Aqueduct Board (N.J.). Report on Additional Water Supply, March 6th, 1879. Newark, A. Pierson & Co., 1879.
    Dana Call Number: TD225 .N6 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Leeds, A. R. " The Monstrous Pollution of the Water Supply of Jersey City and Newark," Journal of the American Chemical Society 9, 1887, 81-97.
    Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access

    Hospitals

    Gilheany, Rosary S. "Early Newark Hospitals," New Jersey History 83(1), January 1965, 10-23.
    Five hospitals opened in Newark between 1861 and 1873: Ward, St. Barnabas, St. Michael's (originally: Hospital of the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis), Clara Maas (originally: German Hospital) and Orange Menorial.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Sharpe, William D. "'Women are Proverbially Hopeful:' Newark's Voluntary Hospitals, 1867-1890," Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 62(4), May 1986, 336-368.
    Drawing on their experience as members of Civil War ladies' aid societies, in the 1870s women were instrumental in founding and administering Newark's first hospitals. Based on extensive archival work.
    Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted access

    Newark Care Facilities
    Photo albums, primarily postcards and maps, arranged by institution.

    Beth Israel
    Centre Street Military Hospital [Ward's Hospital]
    City Hospital [Martland Center/University Hospital]
    Essex County Asylum for the Insane
    Kenney Memorial Hospital [Community Hospital]
    Newark Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary
    Newark German Hospital [Clara Maass]
    Orange Memorial
    Presbyterian Hospital in Newark
    St. Barnabas
    St. Michael's Hospital
    Other

    Beth Israel

    Kraut, Alan M. and Kraut, Deborah A. Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 2007.
    Dana Call Number: RA982 .N492N495 2007 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Kaswiner, B. "Fifty Golden Years: A History of Dentistry at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center," Journal of the New Jersey Dental Association 49(1), 1977, 10-13.
    LSM Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Centennial Celebration: History

    Journal of the Newark Beth Israel Hospital
    Newark, N.J., Vol. 1-Vol.19 (1950-1968)
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Journal of the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
    Newark, N.J., Vol. 20-Vol.23 (1969-1973)
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Centre Street Military Hospital [Ward's Hospital]

    "The Model Hospital in Newark," New York Times July 10, 1862.

    "The Soldiers' Hospital at Newark: The Location, The Accommodations and the Patients," New York Times June 23, 1861.

    City Hospital [Martland Center/University Hospital]

    History of the University Hospital

    Sharpe, William D. "Autopsies in Newark City Hospital, 1908 to 1911," Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey 81(1), January 1984, 53-62.
    Looks at what the patterns revealed in the autopsies performed at Newark City Hospital between 1908 and 1911 suggest about the lives of the urban poor that the hospital served.
    LSM Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Newark City Hospital Records, 1898-1971. A Guide to the Collection
    The Newark City Hospital Records are in the Stanley S. Bergen, Jr, MD University Archives of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) Libraries in Newark. "The records of Newark City Hospital (NCH) date from 1898 to 1971, with bulk dates from 1910 through the late 1940s. The records total approximately 11 linear feet...The records are open for research without restriction under the conditions of the Archives' access policy."

    Essex County Asylum for the Insane

    East, Jane. The Essex County, New Jersey Asylum for the Insane, 1872-1910: A Field Study. M.A. Thesis, University of Chicago, 1940.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ RC445 .N53E7

    Annual Report of the Essex County Asylum for the Insane, Newark, N.J.
    Newark, Advertiser Steam Printing House.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY RC445 .N53E8 [1887 and 1894]

    Kenney Memorial Hospital [Community Hospital]

    Celebrating the Legacy of Kenney Hospital, Newark, New Jersey. Newark, N.J., Newark Preservation and Landmarks Committee, 2005.
    Includes brief history of Kenney Hospital, Dr. John A. Kenney, and some excerpts from Dr. Kenney's remarks at his testimonial dinner on October 27, 1939.

    Kenney, John A. "Kenney Memorial Hospital," Journal of the National Medical Association 22(3), 1930, 156-7.
    Description of the hospital in 1930.
    LSM Call Number: Periodical Shelved by Title

    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 Title

    White, Robert M. "Kenney Memorial Hospital," Journal of the National Medical Association 91(5), May 1999, 282-8.
    LSM Call Number: Periodical Shelved by Title

    Moss, S.W. "John A. Kenney, MD, and the North Jersey Medical Society. Taking on Jim Crow," New Jersey Medicine: The Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey 100(4), April 2003, 37-41.
    LSM Call Number: Periodical Shelved by Title

    *NEW* Miller, Linda Kenney. Beacon on the Hill: A Novel. Marietta, Ga., Harper House Publishers, 2008.
    Fictionalized account of Dr. John Kenney's life and work by his granddaughter.
    Dana Call Number: PS3613 .I543B43 2008 [NEWARK plus STACKS] In Process

    Beacon on the Hill: Photo Album
    Some photographs relating to the life and work of Dr. John Kenney; includes several Kenney Hospital photographs. From the book on Dr. Kenney by his granddaugher, Linda Kenney Miller.

    "John Andrew Kenney," Journal of Negro History 35(2), April 1950, 229-230.
    Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted access

    Newark Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary

    The Newark Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1880-1982
    Register of the collection in the Department of Special Collections, University of Medicine and Dentistry (UMDNJ) Libraries, Newark.

    Newark Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. Annual Report. 1880-
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY RA982 .N639 [Vol.1-4 (1880-1883); Vol.7-9 (1886-1888); Vol.13 (1892); Vol.17 (1896); Vol.26 (1905); Vol. 29 (1908)]

    Newark German Hospital [Clara Maass]

    Cunningham, John T. Clara Maass: A Nurse, A Hospital, A Spirit. Belleville, N.J., 1968.
    Dana Call Number: RA981 .N5C8 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Carlisle, Robert D.B. Building Bridges for 125. Belleville, N.J., Clara Maass Health System, 1993.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK RA982 .C45C37 1993

    Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Dedication of the Newark German Hospital, Sunday & Monday, September 1st and 2nd, 1895 at Caledonian Park. Newark, N.J., Heinz Lito & Print Co., 1895.
    Souvenir Programme (31 pp.)
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY3 RA982 .N6 .T83 1895

    Clara Louise Maass: The Tradition of Caring. Belleville, N.J., Clara Maass Medical Center, 1989.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 RA982 .B44C5 1989

    Guide to the Clara Maass Memorial Hospital Collection, 1959-1982, MG 1670
    Small ephemera collection at the New Jersey Historical Society.

    Orange Memorial

    Orange Memorial Hospital. Annual Report
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY RA982 .O63O6 [Vol.11 (1884); Vol.17 (1890)]
    The following are available at the New Jersey Historical Society: 1883-1885; 1889-1891; 1894.

    Thirtieth Annual Reprot of the Orange Memorial Hospital for the Year 1903, With List of Contributors. Orange, N.J., The Journal Press, 1904.

    Presbyterian Hosptial in Newark

    Presbyterian Hospital in Newark. Annual Report.
    Special Collection Call Number: SNCYL RA982 .N6P92 no.20 (1931)
    The following are available at the New Jersey Historical Society: 1913, 1917-19, 1921-27, 1931-33, 1937, 1939.

    St. Barnabas

    Noorian, Belle W. "Hospital of Saint Barnabas and for Women and Children," Hospitals 14(7), 1940, 115-7.
    History of the Hospital of St. Barnabas in Newark, the hospital's merger with the Hospital for Women and Children, and their School for Nurses.
    Annex Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Hospital of St. Barnabas. Annual Report. Newark, N.J.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY RA982 .N6S135 [Vol.5 (1870/71; Vol. 9 (1874/75; Vol.11 (1876/77); Vol. 14 (1879/80); Vol. 15 (1880/81)]
    The following years are available at the New Jersey Historical Society: 1866/67-1867/68; 1870/71; 1874-77; 1879-83; 1886-87; 1920.
    The following years are available at Newark Public Library: 1871; 1874; 1876-1877; 1883; 1885-1887; 1920-1929.

    The Hospital Review. Monthly
    "Devoted to the interests of the sick and suffering at the Hospital of St. Barnabas."
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 RA960 .H828 [Vol.1 no.6 (Sept. 1877), no.9 (Dec.1877); Vol.2 no 2-7 (May-Oct 1878), no. 9-12 (Dec 1878-Mar 1879); Vol.3 no.1-2 (Apr-May 1879); Vol.6 no.1-5 (Apr-Aug 1882, no.11 (Feb.1882); Vol.29 no.9 (Dec 1905); Vol.31 no.5 (Aug 1907; Vol.33 no.12 (Mar 1910); Vol.34 no.1 (Apr 1911); Vol.35 no.11 (Feb 1912)]
    The following are available at Newark Public Library: June 1888; May 15 (1901, 1903-1907, 1909).

    The Message of St. Barnabas Hospital
    Includes annual reports.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 RA960 .M583 [Vol. 1 no.1 (July 1912), no.3 (Feb 1913)]
    The following are available at Newark Public Library: 1912-1913, 1917, 1940.

    Hospital of Saint Barnabas and for Women and Children. The Message.
    Some issues include annual report.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 RA960 .M583 [Vol.22 no.1: April 1945]
    The following are available at Newark Public Library: Mar 1938, Feb 1939, Mar 1940, Mar 1941, Apr 1943, Apr 1945, Jun 1947, Jun 1949.

    St. Michael's Hospital

    St. Michael's Hospital. Annual Report of the Directors and Medical Board. Newark, N.J.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY2 RA982 .N6814 [Vol.14 (1879); Vol.17 (1882); Vol.18 (1883); Vol.20 (1885); Vol.22 (1887)]
    The following are available at the New Jersey Historical Society: 1872, 1874, 1876-1877, 1879-1888; 1890.

    Other

    Dr. Wright's Sanitarium and Maternity Home
    "An institution established in 1921...The only institution in the state where colored physicians can treat and care for their own patients." 1923 Journal of the National Medical Association advertisement.

    United Hospitals Medical Center Records, 1873-1996
    "United Healthcare Systems, Inc. (formally United Hospitals Medical Center) was established in 1957. Four medical facilities of Newark comprised United Hospitals Medical Center: Presbyterian Hospital, Babies' Hospital (later Children's Hospital), the Hospital for Crippled Children, and the Newark Eye and Ear Infirmary. Later, the Eye Institute of New Jersey and the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation established affiliations." Finding aid for the collection in the Department of Special Collections, University of Medicine and Dentistry (UMDNJ) Libraries, Newark.

    Epidemics

    Cholera
    Polio
    Influenza

    Cholera

    Galishoff, Stuart. "Cholera in Newark, New Jersey," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 25(4), October 1970, 438-448. Reprinted in Newark: The Nation's Unhealthiest City, 1832-1895. New Brunswick, N.J., 1988, pp.49-62.
    Medical and social responses to the cholera outbreaks in Newark in 1832, 1849, and 1854.
    Alexander Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Darcy, J.S. "Notices of the Cholera at Newark in 1832," Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New York 1850, 181-184.
    LSM Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Clark, J.Henry. "History of the 'Cholera' Epidemic as it Appeared in the City of Newark, N.J., From June to Oct., 1849," New York Journal of Medicine 4, 1850, 211-223

    Polio Epidemic of 1916

    Rogers, Naomi. Screen the Baby, Swat the Fly : Polio in the Northeastern United States, 1916. Thesis (Ph. D.). University of Pennsylvania, 1986.
    Case study of the 1916 polio epidemic in New York, Philadelphia and Newark. Focus on social issues.
    Dana Call Number: RA644.P9R642 1986a [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Galishoff, Stuart. "Newark and the Great Polio Epidemic of 1916," New Jersey History 94(2-3), Summer/Autumn 1976, 101-111.
    While New York and New Jersey were the hardest hit by the 1916 polio epidemic, the incidence rate in Newark was nearly twice that for New York City with 1422 cases and 376 deaths reported. Newark was also the first city to adopt a comprehensive plan to aid paralyzed polio victims.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Craster, Charles V. "Poliomyelitis, Some Features in City Prevalence," Journal of the American Medical Association 68(21), May 26, 1917, 1537-1539
    Craster was the Newark health officer who declared on July 14, 1916 that Newark had a polio epidemic.
    LSM Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Lavinder, C. H. "Poliomyelitis (Infantile Paralysis); The Recent Epidemic in Newark, N.J.," Public Health Reports 1916, 3351-3355.
    Primarily tables and graphs, including reported cases and deaths by ward.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    I Am the Baby Killer! Illustration from the Newark Evening News.

    Influenza

    Galishoff, Stuart. " Newark and the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 43, 1969, 246-58.
    Between September and November 1918, Newark recorded 29,320 cases of influenza and pneumonia with a resulting 2183 deaths. The city's response to the crisis.
    Off-Campus Access Restricted Access
    LSM Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Diseases
    AIDS
    Cancer
    Tuberculosis

    AIDS

    New Jersey AIDS Collection, 1986-
    Finding aid. "The New Jersey AIDS Collection was developed in 1986 by the UMDNJ University Libraries Special Collections staff to document the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the state of New Jersey. The collection is purposely gathered through the collection of newsletters, pamphlets, brochures, articles, statistics, memorabilia, and other ephemeral materials produced by New Jersey organizations and UMDNJ units."

    Newark Eligible Metropolitan Area Health Services Planning Council. Comprehensive Health Plan: 2004-2006
    The Newark EMA includes Essex, Union, Morris, Sussex, and Warren counties. The Newark EMA provides direct care and services for about 9000 persons living with HIV or AIDS. The Planning Council also publishes a report on Trends in HIV/AIDS in the Newark EMA.

    The AIDS Epidemic in Newark and Detroit. Hearings Before the Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives. Ond Hundred and First Congress, First Session. March 27 and April 24, 1989. Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1990.

    Hu, Dale J. et.al. "Geographical AIDS Rates and Socio-Demographic Variable in the Newark, New Jersey Metropolitan Area," AIDS & Public Policy Journal 9(1), Spring 1994, 20-24.
    Study examining the relationship between socioeconomic factors and the incidence of HIV/AIDS in Newark. Based on December 1991 zip code data, median household income was the variable most strongly associated with higher cumulative AIDS incidence.
    LSM Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Hancock, E. Lee (Eugenia Lee). AIDS is Just a Four Letter Word : An Ethnographic Study of Theodicy and the Social Construction of HIV/AIDS in Newark, New Jersey. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Drew University, 2002.
    In Newark HIV/AIDS is a disease of poverty. Uses oral histories to investigate the social processes that shape the lives of the Newark HIV/AIDS community.
    Dana Call Number: RC607.A26H355 2002a [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Chase, Sabrina Marie. Mujeres Ingeniosas (Resourceful Women): HIV and Puerto Rican Women and the Urban Health Care System. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers University, 2005.
    "This ethnographic study explores the help-seeking strategies of poor HIV+ Puerto Rican woemn living in the greater Newark area."
    Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted access

    Oleske, James et.al. "Immune Deficiency Syndrome in Children," JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 249(17), May 6, 1983, 2345-2349.
    The first study of AIDS in children looked at eight children from the Newark metropolitan area born into families with recognized risks for AIDS.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Cancer

    Thind, I.S., et al. "Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Newark, N.J. 1970-1974: A National Comparison Cancer 47(5), March 1, 1981, 1047-1053.
    LSM Call Number: Shelved by Title

    Thind, I.S., et al. "Cancer Among Blacks in Newark, New Jersey, 1970-1976: A National and International Comparison," Cancer 50(1), July 1, 1982, 180-186.
    LSM Call Number: Shelved by Title

    Holland, Bart K., Foster, James D., and Louria, Donald B. "Cervical Cancer and Health Care Resources in Newark, New Jersey, 1970 to 1988," American Journal of Public Health 83(1), January 1993, 45-48.
    Examined cervical carcinoma patterns in Newark over a 19-year period, found that "the ratio of in situ to invasive cervical cancer increased and decreased in a striking parallel with the provision and subsequent cessation of funding."
    Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted access

    Tuberculosis

    Najem, G.R. et al. "Changes in Tuberculosis Incidence in Newark, New Jersey," Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey 75(7), July 1978, 543-547.
    In 1969 Newark had the highest incidence of active tubercolosis among major U.S. cities. Between 1970 and 1974, the rate of active tuberculosis decreased 29 percent.

    *NEW* Tuberculosis, A Resurgence in Newark. Hearing Before the Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee of the Committee on Goverment Operations, Housing of Representatives. One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session. October 20, 1992.

    Health Statistics

    Then and Now in New Jersey: Health Profiles for 1900 and 2000
    Comparison of births (number and rate), marriages, death (rates, leading causes, age at death, infant and early childhood mortality, etc.) and population by region. From the New Jersey Center for Health Statistics.

    Essex County Health Profiles
    Aggregate birth and death statistics for Essex County residents. Available online for 2000, 1998, and 1996. Note: Because of changes in definition that went into effect with the adoption of the Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases in 1999, there may appear to be dramatic increases or decreases in the numbers of deaths due to certain causes between 1998 and 1999. See Explanatory Materials from the New Jersey Center for Health Statistics.

    Newark Births 1990-2003

    Newark Deaths 1990-2002

    Use the New Jersey State Health Assessment Data (NJSHAD) database to generate other Newark health statistics tables.

    Historical Statistics

    New Jersey Health Statistics from 1877 to 2000: An Historical Electronic Compendium of Published Reports
    Annual reports on health and health-related data and statistics; includes lots of Newark-specific data. Compiled by Mark C. Fulcomer and Marcia M. Sass.

    "Mortality in Newark from Acute Communicable Disease Along with Other Selected Vital Statistics, 1879-1918," IN Galishoff, Stuart, Safeguarding the Public Health: Newark, 1895-1918, Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1975, pp.168-171.
    Dana Call Number: RA448 .N732G34 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Health Report Newark, N.J. Division of Health.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK RA115.N5H43. 1960-1963; 1966-1967 [1937-1940, 1942, 1948-1953, 1955-1960 1962-63 In Annex RA115 .N5H43]

    Annual Report. Newark, N.J. Division of Health.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK RA115.N5H43 [IN PROCESS] 1970 and 1972

    Health Planning

    Newark Health Planning Agency. Newark Comprehensive Health Plan. Newark, N.J., Newark Health Planning Agency, Department of Health and Welfare.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK RA115.N5N49 [IN PROCESS] 1974; 1975/76; 1976/77.

    Newark Health Planning Agency. Newark Health District Plan and Health District Street Index. Newark, N.J., Newark Health Planning Agency, Department of Health and Welfare.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK RA395 .N5N48 1970z

    Newark (N.J.). Dept. of Health and Welfare. Newark Now, 1970-1975: Positive Health Trends and Developments. Newark, N.J. : The Dept., 1976. 41 pages
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK RA114.N47 1976

    Newark (N.J.). Area Community Health Services Study Committee. Newark Area Community Health Services Study. Newark, NJ : The Committee, 1965. 3 volumes.
    Vol. 1. A community profile and resources -- Vol. 2.Evaluations and recommendations -- Vol. 3. Actions recommended.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ RA448.N6N48 1965

    Environmental Health

    *NEW* Thornton, Rita L. Environmental Justice Education and Atmospheric Particulate Analysis in Urban Environmental Health Policy Development: Indoor Airborne Particulate Concentrations in Preschools of Asthmatic Children in Newark. Thesis (Ph.D), Rutgers University - Newark, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2006.
    "This study analyzes the community locations and evaluates literature and other available air pollution data for the target communities in the city of Newark. The study focuses on asthma or reative airway diseases as a target health risk. It also performs data collection on particulate pollutants and levels of trace metals in particulate matter in target communities and schools of preschool children in two of the five Wards of Newark."
    Dana Call Number: TD883.17 .T46 2006a [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Tsai, Stella Manchun. Outdoor Aeroallergens, Air Pollutants, and Daily Asthma Hospitalization in Two Urban Areas of New Jersey. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 2007.
    Evaluates the association between ambient aeroallergen and air pollutant concentrations and asthma hospitalization rates in Camden and in Elizabeth/Newark from 1999 to 2002.
    Dana Call Number: In Process
    Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted access

    Joselow, Morris M. et.al. "Manganese Pollution in the City Environment and its Relationship to Traffic Density," American Journal of Public Health 68(6), June 1978, 557-560.
    "Street soils from various locations...[in Newark] were analyzed for manganese and lead...Highly significant inverse relationships were found between the concentrations of both contaminants and distance from major traffic arteries."
    Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted access

    Sharpe, William D. "Benzene, Artificial Leather and Aplastic Anemia: Newark, 1916-1928," Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 69(1), January-February 1993, 47-60.

    Lead Poisoning
    Newark Bay
    Passaic River

    Lead Poisoning

    Browder, Ann A. "Lead Poisoning in Newark: The Situation Prior to a Case Finding and Intervention Program," Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey 69(2), February 1972, 101-6.
    "Assessment of lead poisoning in Newark during the 15 months January 1, 1969 through March 31, 1970 showed that the number of children screened, treated, and followed were far below the number projected at risk of lead poisoning."
    LSM Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Schneider, D. Jean and Lavenhar, Marvin A. " Lead Poisoning: More Than a Medical Problem," American Journal of Public Health 76(3), March 1986, 242-244.
    Lead paint used in pre-1950 housing is a major source of lead poisoning in children. In 1980 66 percent of Newark's housing stock predated 1950. An examination of the medical records of 236 Newark children treated for lead poisoning between 1977 and 1980 found that the number of cases began to rise after 1976, when a decrease in federal funding resulted in cutbacks in prevention and screening programs.
    Off-Campus Access. Rutgers-restricted access

    Adubato, Susan et. al. " Successful Ways to Increase Retention in a Longitudinal Study of Lead-Exposed Children," Health & Social Work 28(4), November 2003, 312-315.
    Looks at the factors that contributed to a 97 percent retention rate over a five-year period in the Treatment of Lead-Exposed Children (TLC) study in Newark.
    Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted access

    Peet, Judy and Ben-Ali, Russell. Part 2: Housing Crisis Causes Health Crisis: Lead Prevention in Newark Proves Almost Impossible. November 5, 2001.
    Part of a Newark Star-Ledger series on lead poisoning.

    Childhood Lead Poisoning in New Jersey Annual Report: Fiscal Year 2006
    Essex county continues to have the largest number and percentage of children with elevated blood lead results in the state. The city of Newark has the highest number of children with elevated blood levels.

  • Childhood Lead Poisoning in New Jersey Annual Report: Fiscal Year 2005
  • Childhood Lead Poisoning in New Jersey Annual Report: Fiscal Year 2004
  • Childhood Lead Poisoning in New Jersey Annual Report: Fiscal Year 2003

    • Newark Bay

    Wakeman, Thomas H. Effect of Changes in Sediment and Contaminant Loads in Newark Bay on Future Disposal of Dredged Sediments. D.E.S. Thesis, Columbia University, 2006.
    Dana Call Number: In-Process

    Crawford, David W., Bonnevie, Nancy L. and Wenning, Richard J. "Sources of Pollution and Sediment Contamination in Newark Bay, New Jersey," Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 30, February 1995, 85-100.
    Reviews the literature and data on chemicals and water quality stressors throughout the Newark Bay estuary. Looks at the historical and current sources of pollution.
    Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted access

    Burger, Joanna et.al., "Fishing in Urban New Jersey: Ethnicity Affects Information Sources, Perception, and Compliance," Risk Analysis 19(2), April 1999, 217-229
    "Examines fishing behavior, sources of information, perceptions, and compliance with fishing advisories as a function of ethnicity for people fishing in the Newark Bay Complex."
    Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted access

    Wilson, Timothy P. and Bonin, Jennifer L. Concentration and Loads of Organic Compounds and Trace Elements in Tributaries to Newark and Raritan Bays, New Jersey. Prepared for the New Jersey Toxics Reduction Workplan for NY-NJ Harbor Ambient Monitoring of Loading to Major Tributaries at Head-of-Tide Study I-C. Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5059. Reston, Virginia, U.S. Geological Survey, 2007.

    Passaic River

    *NEW* Onwueme, Victor Udoka. Characterization and Assessment of Contaminated Sediments in Lower Passaic River, New Jersey. Thesis (D.Env.M.), Montclair State University, 2008.
    Dana Call Number: GB1399.8 .N5O59 2008a [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Leisure Time: Recreation & Sports

    The Arts

    Rabicoff, Richard. "The Carteret Book Club of Newark: An Historical Sketch and Bibliography," New Jersey History 92(2), Summer 1974, 93-102.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    Records of the Carteret Book Club of Newark, New Jersey
    Description and finding aid to the collection at the Grolier Club Library in New York City.

    Moore, Lester L. Outside Broadway: A History of the Professional Theater in Newark, New Jersey, From the Beginning to 1867. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press, 1970.
    Dana Call Number: PN227 .N66M6 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Kukla, 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]

    Newark's Lost Jazz Shrines [Videorecording]
    "Short biographical documentary on ragtime/stride/early jazz pianist and composer Willie 'The Lion' Smith, with special focus on the Newark, New Jersey music scene in the early part of the century."
    JAZZ Call Number: Video 393

    Old Newark Theater Photograph, c.1920

    Rothschild, Barbara L. A Tribute to Newark's Movie Houses From the Newark Memories site.

    Pasquale, Ron. Newark's Downtown Theatres From the Newark Memories site.

    "Perseverance and Perspiration" Spell A.A. Adams and Success
    February 23, 1946 newspaper article about A.A. [Adam Adam] Adams, owner of the Adams Theatre (Closed; 28 Branford Place) and the Newark Paramount (Closed; 195 Market Street).

    "New Jersey After Hours" Cover of After Hours: The Weekly Guide to Entertainment [March 3, 1950]

    [The Early Years of Savoy Records]. [Videorecording] 1998
    The early history of Newark-based Savoy Records, one of the most important record labels in the history of jazz and gospel.
    JAZZ Call Number: VIDEO 377

    "Newark & Music in the 1950s: Oral History," Blue Newark Culture 1990, 46-73.
    Special section consists of:

    Heard, Nathan C. "Remembrances of Little Jimmy Scott in Newark in the 1950s," pp.46-55.
    Mendelsohn, Fred. "Maybelle, Freddie, & Herman," pp.56-65. ["Big Maybelle", Fred Mendelsohn, and Herman Lubinsky]
    Candena, Ozzie. "Jimmy, Ozzie, & Herman," pp.66-73. [Ozzie Candena, Jimmy Scott, and Herman Lubinsky]

    JAZZ Call Number: F144 .N6B58 1990

    Jardin, Gary. "Spirit and Redemption: The Soul of Jimmy Scott," Blue Newark Culture 1990, 74-93.
    JAZZ Call Number: F144 .N6B58 1990

    Ritz, David. Faith in Time: The Life of Jimmy Scott. Cambridge, MA, Da Capo Press, 2002.
    JAZZ Call Number: ML420 .S425R57 2002

    *NEW* Jardin, Gary. "Blue Coda: The Triumph of Jimmy Scott, " Blue Newark Culture 1993, 156-160.
    Dana Call Number: F144 .N6B58 1993

    Johnson, Leo. JJ's Theme: Newark Jazz Clubs of the 1960s and 70s. Thesis (M.A.), Rutgers University, 2005.
    Dana Call Number: RESERVE ML .J67 2005

    Carner, Gary. "Conversation with Hal Mitchell: Jazz Patriarch of Newark," Black Perspective in Music 17(1/2), 1989, 109-134.
    JAZZ Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    *NEW* [Club Music in Newark], Blue Newark Culture 1993, 93-155.
    Includes:

    Webb, Michael. New Stage for a City: Designing the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Mulgrave, Vic., Images Publishing, 1998.
    Dana Call Number: NA6835 .N49N49 1998 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Tamburri, Jack. The State of the Arts in Newark. September 2001.

    Recreation Areas

    Branch Brook Park
    Description and history. Park originally (1895) designed by the firm of John Bogart and Nathan F. Barrett; design revised by Frederick Law and John Charles Olmsted (1900).

    Galop, Kathleen P. and Longendyck, Catharine. Branch Brook Park. Charleston, S.C., Arcadia, 2007.
    Part of the "Images of America" series.
    Dana Call Number: F144 .N5G35 2007 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Newark. City Plan Commission. A Public Recreation System for Newark: Suggestions and Recommendations by the City Plan Commission. Newark, N.J., 1915.
    "A brief review, from the city-planning standpoint, of the value of a comprehensive system of public recreation." Part of the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library. Also
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY GV54 .N6A3 1915

    Harland Bartholonew & Associates. Preliminary Report on Parks, Playgrounds, Recreational Facilities and Schools for Newark, New Jersey. Newark, N.J., 1946.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY3 GV54 .N6H37 1947

    U.S. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. Northeast Region. National Urban Recreation Study, New York/Newark/Jersey City. Denver, 1977.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK GV54 .A115N36

    Great Public Spaces: Weequahic Park
    Weequahic Park is the second largest developed park in Essex County.

    Land Use Element of the Master Plan for the City of Newark: Appendices. Prepared by the City of Newark Department of Economic and Housing Development and Philips Preiss Shapiro Associates, Inc., for the Central Planning Board. Newark, 2004.

  • Appendix B: Inventory of Public Parks, Open Space and Recreational Facilities

    • *NEW* Harnik, Peter. Newark, New Jersey: An Open Space Analysis. Morristown, N.J., The Trust for Public Land, 2004.
    Brief history of city parks in Newark; Newark parks today and the possibilities for meeting the need for more recreational areas. Appendices (Maps): Newark Parkland and Buffers; Access to Parks by Income; Children's Access to Parks.

    Passaic River Waterfront Proposals

    Wallace, Roberts & Todd. A Development Plan for the Newark Passaic Riverfront, Downtown Newark, New Jersey: Final Report. Philadelphia, Pa., 1983.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK F144 .N6W34 1983

    Joseph G. Minish Passaic River Waterfront Park and Historic Area, Newark, NJ
    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (New York District) Fact Sheet.

    Newark Waterfront: Visioning a Waterfront Place for Downtown Newark
    "The Newark Waterfront Community Access Study (NWCAS) is a Public Outreach Program being implemented by the New Jersey Department of Transportation to determine pedestrian access links from Downtown Newark to the Passaic Riverfront park across McCarter Highway (Route 21), which is currently being widened and realigned, from Raymond Boulevard to Bridge Street in Newark's central business district." (2003)

    Imagine Newark's Waterfront: Newark Waterfront Access Study. New York, Project for Public Spaces Inc., December 2003. [DRAFT]

    Baseball

    Cvornyek, Robert. Baseball in Newark. Charleston, S.C., Arcadia Pub., 2003.
    Photographic history of baseball in Newark from the 19th century to 2003.
    Dana Call Number: GV863 .N52N49 2003 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    The Ball Game. Thomas A. Edison, Inc. 1898. [Video clip]

    Records of Newark Professional Baseball Teams

    *NEW* The Newark Peppers

    In 1915 the Indiana Hoosiers, the 1914 champions of the renegade Federal League, moved to Newark and opened the season as the Newark Peppers--the only major league baseball team ever based in New Jersey.

    1915 Newark Peppers Roster and Photograph.

    Lane, F.C. "Famous Magnates of the Federal League: Harry Sinclair, Oil Wizard, the Live Wire of the Feds," Baseball Magazine 15(4), August 1915, pp. 28-32, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114.
    Sinclair was the owner of the Newark Peppers.

    Lane, F.C. "Editorials," Baseball Magazine 15(2), June 1915, p.15.
    On Newark's impressive opening day.

  • Grand Parade in Honor of Federal League Opening Day in Newark [Photograph]
  • Opening Day Crowd [Photographs]

    • The Newark Bears

    Mayer, Ronald A. 1937 Newark Bears: A Baseball Legend. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1994.
    Dana Call Number: GV875 .N47M39 1994 [NEWARK plus STACKS]

    Linthurst, Randolph. Newark Bears. Trenton, N.J., White Eagle Print, 1978.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ GV875 .N6L7

    Linthurst, Randolph. Newark Bears: The Middle Years. West Trenton, N.J., 1979.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY GV875 .N47L57

    Linthurst, Randolph. Newark Bears: The Final Years. West Trenton, N.J., 1981.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY GV875 .N47L572

    *NEW* The Newark Bears
    Web site of the "new" (1998- ) Newark Bears minor league baseball team.

    The Newark Eagles

    "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.

    Overmyer, James. Queen of the Negro leagues : Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles. Lanham, MD., Scarecrow Press, 1998.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK GV865 .M325094 1998

    *NEW* Cricket

    Kirsch, George B. " American Cricket: Players and Clubs Before the Civil War," Journal of Sport History 11(1), Spring 1984, 28-50.
    Examines demographic, social and cultural characteristics of cricketers and cricket clubs in Newark and the other major U.S. cricketing centers (New York City, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia) before the Civil War.

    *NEW* Cycling

    Nye, Peter Joffre. Newark, N.J., Started a National Cycling Tradition

    Bodian, Nat. Newark: Cradle of Cycling in the Sport's Golden Age

    A Bad Spill--Newark, N.J., Velodrome Track [1914 Photograph]

    Other

    Sterner, Alice P. Radio, Motion Picture, and Reading Interests: A Study of High School Pupils. New York, Teacher's College, 1947.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK LB1135 .S75 1947

    Charles F. Cummings published numerous articles on recreation and leisure in Newark history in the Newark Star-Ledger, including:

      "German Community Thrived on Music and Athletics." September 7, 2000, p. 3
      "Symphony Hall Has Hit Many Highs and Lows," November 9, 2000, p. 3
      "Great Italian-American Entertainers Lit Up City's Name." January 11, 2001, p. 3
      "City's Great Stadiums Provided Entertainment to All." November 8, 2001, p. 3
      "Enduring Affair With Stadiums Distinguishes City." November 15, 2001, p. 2
      "Patriotic Celebrations Often Showed City's Rowdy Side." December 27, 2001, p. 3
      "Music Ruled During Era of German Singing Societies." April 4, 2002, p. 3.
      "Elegent Events Abounded in Century of High Society." January 16, 2003, p. 3.
      "At Height of Passaic Regattas, Newark Was All Oars." January 23, 2003 p. 3.
      "Passaic River Regattas Were a Highlight of City's Leisure." April 22, 2004, p. 3.

    *NEW* Newark Municipal Documents

    Newark City Archives

    The Newark City Archives at 295 Halsey Street is a central repository for the records of Newark city departments back to the 19th century. At present there is no on-site access to this collection. Users looking for particualr information or documents must submit a request with the City Clerk's Office at the Newark City Hall. (920 Broad Street, Room 415, Phone: 973/733-3844)

    Newark Municipal Documents Collection

    The Newark Municipal Documents collection consists of microfiche of assorted annual reports and other documents produced by Newark city departments and agencies between 1973 and 1996. The fiche are housed with the Dana Newark collection and are available for in-house use from the Dana Library Reference Desk.

    The following departments and agencies are included in the collection. Note that these are selected publications and only one or two reports may be available from a specific agency or department.

      Board of Education
      Central Planning Board
      1978 Newark Master Plan only.
      City of Newark
      Includes 1986-1989 budgets.
      Council for Higher Education
      Department of Administration
      Division of Central Purchasing
      Includes 1979-1983 annual reports.
      Divison of Budget
      Department of Development
      Department of Engineering
      Includes 1975-1994 annual reports
      Department of Finance
      Department of General Services
      Department of Health & Welfare
      Includes 1973-1978 annual reports
      Department of Law
      Department of Public Works
      Includes 1974-1978 annual reports
      Department of Recreation & Park
      Includes 1973-1983 annual reports [not all years].
      Division of Rent Control
      Fire Department
      Includes 1973-1981 & 1989-1996 annual reports.
      Health Planning Advisory Council
      Housing Authority
      Mayor's Policy & Development Office
      Miscellaneous Annual Reports
      Municipal Council
      Includes Council Minutes 1989-1990 and 1995.
      Neighborhood Consumer Services
      Includes 1979/80-1981/82 annual reports.
      Newark Economic Development Corp
      Newark Private Industry Council
      Office of Consumer Action
      Office of the Mayor
      Human Rights Commission
      Mayor's Office of Employment & Training
      Parking Authority
      Public Library
      Includes 1974-1979 annual reports.
      Real Estate Commission
      Redevelopment and Housing Authority
      Regional Health Planning Council
      Watershed Conservation and Development Corp.

    Published Documents

    Reports of City Officers of the City of Newark, N.J., For the Year 1902. Newark, N.J., Groebe-McGovern Co., Printers, 1902.

    City Directories

    In addition to the large compilations of New Jersey city directories that the Rutgers Libraries have available in microfilm/microfiche, Special Collections and University Archives has some 800 New Jersey city directories in their collection.

    Many of these directories have been cataloged and can be found by searching IRIS, the Rutgers' online catalog. To search for cataloged Newark directories, at the IRIS search screen, enter "newark" followed by the word "directories" as your search term and then select "WORDS anywhere" from the pulldown menu.

    An unpublished finding aid to the city directory collection is also available in the Special Collections department.

    The New Jersey Information Center at the Newark Public Library has an extensive collection of New Jersey city directories. While directories for all parts of the state are included, the collection is particularly strong for Newark and other Essex county municipalities.

    City Directories of the United States, 1860-1901 : Guide to the Microfilm Collection. -- Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, 1983, c1984.
    Includes index to the contents of the two Research Publications microfilm sets (U.S. City Directories, 1861-1881 and U.S. City Directories, 1882-1901) below.
    Alex Call Number: Ref. E154.7C57 1983

    Glenn Geisheimer maintains a list of collections holding specific Newark City Directories on his Old Newark site.

    Newark City Directories

    History

    Sonn, Ione M. "Benjamin Thompson Pierson and His Newark Directories," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 79(1), January 1961, 21-37.
    From the first Newark directory compiled by Pierson in 1835 to his last in 1862.
    Dana Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title

    1835-1860

    New Jersey City Directories, 1835-1860 [microform] Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, Inc., [198-?]
    226 microfiche
    Contents: New Jersey -- Camden -- Jersey City -- Newark -- New Brunswick -- Paterson -- Trenton.
    Part of the City directories of the United States through 1860, a compilation based on Spear, Dorothea N. Bibliography of American directories through 1860, Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1961. [Dana Call Number: Ref. Z5771 .S7]
    Alex Call Number: Microfiche 260

    Directory of Newark for 1835-6: With an Historical Sketch. Newark, 1836.
    Name index, with links to the original scanned pages, to the first Newark city directory. Includes the historical sketch.

    Dirctory of the City of Newark for 1838-9, With an Historical Sketch. Newark, N.J., B.T. Pierson, 1838.

    1840-41 City Directory for Newark, New Jersey

    *NEW* Pierson, B.T. Directory of the City of Newark for 1849-50. Newark, 1849.
    Dana Call Number: In Process

    Directory of the City of Newark for 1851-52. 17th edition. By B.T. Pierson. Newark N.J., Holbrook's Steam Press, 1851.

    1861-1881

    U.S. City Directories, 1861-1881 : New Jersey [microform] Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, Inc, [1984?]
    20 reels of microfilm
    Contents: [pt.1.] Jersey City (7 reels) -- [pt. 2.] Newark (10 reels) -- [pt. 3.] Paterson (3 reels).
    Alex Call Number: Microfilm 2413

    1882-1901

    U.S. City Directories, 1882-1901 : New Jersey [microform] Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, Inc., [1984?]
    32 reels of microfilm
    Contents: [pt. 1.] Jersey City (9 reels) -- [pt. 2.] Newark (17 reels) -- [pt. 3.] Paterson (6 reels)
    Alex Call Number: Microfilm 2414

    1902-1935

    United States City Directories--Newark, N.J. [Segment IV: 1902-1935] [microform]. Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, [198-]-1987.
    26 microfilm reels
    Alex Call Number: Microfilm 2667

    Maps

    Historical Map of Newark, New Jersey, 1666-1916
    Compiled for the 250th celebration by Edward S. Rankin, C.E., August 1916, revised January 1918.

    Newark Mountain circa 1696.
    Map. Reconstruction (2005) of land holdings and roads for a portion of what was then Newark Township by Charles T. McGrath.

    McGrath, Charles T. Jr. Newark Mountain: Third Division of Land Circa 1696 A.D.. 2005.
    Documentation for the above.

    1764 Ball Map of the Newark Mountain Purchase Claim
    Copy: of a Map made by Thomas Ball of the New Ark Mountain Purchase Claim Done in 1764. [inscription]

    1872 Map of the City of Newark
    F.W. Beers map from the 1872 State Atlas of New Jersey.

    Newark, circa 1874.
    Bird's eye view. Zoomable map from the Library of Congress Panoramic Maps series.

    Newark, circa 1895.
    Bird's eye view. Zoomable map from the Library of Congress Panoramic Maps series. See detail of the area where Rutgers-Newark is now located.

    Scarlett and Scarlett. Atlas of the City of Newark, New Jersey: From Official Records, Private Plans & Actual Surveys. Newark, N.J., 1889.
    37 detailed maps. Includes information on land owners and building materials.
    Special Collections Call Number: XFOLIO G1259 .N5S33

    Robinson, Elisha. Atlas of the City of Newark, New Jersey: From Official Records, Private Plans and Actual Surveys. New York, E. Robinson, 1901.
    Special Collections Call Number: SNCLXF G1259 .N5R6 1901

    Newark, 1904.
    Place cursor anywhere on map and click on the zoom icon in the lower right to open map to full size. From the Old Newark site.

    Robinson, Elisha. Robinson's Atlas of the City of Newark, New Jersey. Compiled From Official Records, Private Plans and Actual Surveys. Newark, N.J., E. Robinson, 1926-1927. 3 vols.
    Contents: Vol 1: Embracing the section of the City North from Penn. R.R. Market Street and South Orange Avenue to 12th Street to Central Avenue; Vol. 2: Embracing the Section of the City South to Market Street and South Orange Avenue, the Vailsburg Section and West to Broad Street., Poinier Street and Elizabeth Avenue to City Line; Vol. 3: Embracing the Section of the City South and East from Penna. R.R. and Market Street to Broad Street, to Poinier Street, to Elizabeth Avenue thence to City Line.
    Detailed maps show buildings, dwellings and businesses, and indicate building materials, ward lines, water pipes, sewers, and paved or unimproved streets.
    Dana Call Number: NEWARK G1259 .N5R63 1926

    Newark, 1944.
    Place cursor anywhere on map and click on the zoom icon in the lower right to open map to full size.

    Downtown Newark, 1966.
    Includes the "new" Rutgers-Newark site as well as the "old" location at Fulton and Rector streets. From the Old Newark site.

    1967 U.S. Geological Survey Map of the Elizabeth Quadrangle (includes Newark)
    Place cursor anywhere on map and click on the zoom icon in lower right to open map to full size.

    1910 Map of Newark with Areas Where Different Nationalities Predominate

    The Changing Landscape of Newark
    Digitized maps from Rutgers Cartography.

    Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, New Jersey, [1884-1970] [microform]. Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, 1983.
    44 microfilm reels
    Extremely detailed, large scale plans of a cities and towns drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. Includes the size, outline, and often the function, of each building. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.
    Alex: Microfilm 2672

    Fire Insurance Maps from the Sanborn Map Company Archives : Late 19th century to 1990, New Jersey [microform] / Bethesda, MD : University Publications of America, c1992.
    24 microfilm reels
    Detailed maps of 167 New Jersey cities and towns covering the period 1945-1991. These maps were not deposited with the Library of Congress and are not duplicated in the set above.
    Alex: Microfilm 2754.

    Natalie Borisovets
    Ann Watkins
    John Cotton Dana Library
    October 13, 2003;
    Updated June 10, 2009