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."
Compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of New Jersey. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1986.
Originally published (1939) as New Jersey, A Guide to its Present and Past. Chapter on Newark: pp. 312-338. Available?
Daniel J. Leab. 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
"The Struggle to Desegregate Newark: Black Middle Class Militancy in New Jersey, 1932-1947"
Clement A. Price. New Jersey History 99(3/4), 1981, 215-228.
Photojournalist Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985) worked for the Farm
Security Administration in the 1930s, documenting the effects of the
economic depression around the country.