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The Newark Experience

Ferry Street

Ferry Street in the "Ironbound" is the heart of Portuguese Newark.

Ferry Street Newark

The Ironbound

The Ironbound: The Past, Present and Future of Newark's Portuguese Community
Corey Takahashi. WNYC News. June 7, 2007.

Ironbound: Environmental Perspectives of an Immigrant Staging Area.
Thomas Stasny. Rutgers-Newark Senior Thesis.2004. Available?

Newspapers

Luso Americano
Bilingual newsweekly. Available?
Tri-lingual Ironbound Voices
Available?
The Newark News clippings file has about articles on the Portuguese in Newark going back to 1941.
The Newark Public Library has microfilmed the Newark News files; Dana Library has microfilm for a portion of the collection. The articles on Newark Portuguese are on Reel N-45, in the Dana Newark Collection.

Bibliographies

Portuguese Immigrants in the United States
A bibliography from the Library of Congress.

The Portuguese in the United States: A Bibliography.
Leo Pap. Staten Island, New York. Center for Migration Studies. 1976. Available?

Anything Else?

Click on the subject keywords below to search the Rutgers Catalog:

Portuguese - United States

Portuguese Americans New Jersey

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