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The Newark Experience

Reporting the Story

"Newark: the Predictable Insurrection"
Cover of Life for July 28, 1967.
Newark, The Predictable Insurrection: Shooting War in the Streets
July 28, 1967 issue of Life magazine. [Vol. 63, no.4]. Available?
News Articles From the Events of July 1967
Digitized articles from the Newark Evening News July 13-16, 1967. From the Newark Public Library.
"Newark Riot Deaths at 21 as Negro Sniping Widens" New York Times, July 16, 1967
Newark Race Riot: "Open Rebellion--Just Like Wartime"
U.S. News & World Report 63(4), July 24, 1967, p. 6. Rutgers-restricted Access
The Real Tragedy of Newark
U.S. News & World Report 63(5), July 31, 1967, pp.30-31. Rutgers-restricted Access
Violence: 24 Dead in Newark Riots
Universal Newsreels. July 18, 1967. Rutgers-restricted Access
One Night in Newark
"Report and actuality of a night of race rioting in Newark, New Jersey in July 1967. Produced by Mike Hodel from tapes recorded in Newark by Robert Ortiz and Ronnie Watkins." KPFA Radio, Berkeley, Calif.
BBC Newsnight: The Newark Riots
Charles Wheeler report.
Collection of 1967 Newark Riots Newsclippings, 1967-1987.
Finding Aid to a collection in the Monsignor Field Archives & Special Collection Center, Seton Hall University. "[P]hotocopied newspaper and journal articles on the riots and their aftermath, as well as reactions in Newark, NJ to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr...Publications represented include the Star-Ledger, the New York Times, the Daily News, Time magazine, Life magazine, Newsweek, the Newark Evening News, and the Advocate, a Catholic newspaper."
Urban Ghetto Riots, 1965-1968: A Comparison of Soviet and American Press Coverage.
Ann Kathleen Johnson. Thesis (Ph.D), University of Denver, 1994. Chapter 5 (pp. 178-253) examines coverage of the 1967 Newark and Detroit riots by theNew 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. Available?

News Photos

Newark, July 1967
New York Times photographs.
Pictures: Newark Riots, 50th Anniversary
40 (Mostly AP) photographs. From the Morning Call.