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New Jersey Historical Society panal discussion, July 11, 2007. Panel: Fred Bruning, Sally Carrol, Robert Curvin, Danny Schechter, and Leonard Weinglass.
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. Available?
No Cause for Indictment: An Autopsy of Newark.
Ron Porambo. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. Available?
Albert Bergesen. 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.
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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.
Jeffrey M. Paige. 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.
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"The Trial of Leroi Jones,"
Louise Campbell. INCities Fit to LIve in and How We Can Make Them Happen. New York, Macmillan Company, 1971. pp. 21-25. Available?
"Harvesting the Crisis: The Newark Uprising, the Kerner Commission, and Writings on Riots."
Kevin Mumford. IN African American Urban History Since World War II. Edited by Kenneth L. Kusmer and Joe W. Trotter. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2009. Chapter 10: pp. 203-209.
"This essay explores how various observers and experts described the motivation of 'riot participants' and how they interpreted the nature of the conflict." Available?
Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America.
Kevin J. Mumford. New York, New York University Press, 2007.
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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