When the Newark riots ended in July 1967, Martin Bressler heard his Maplewood neighbors talk of blocking off the roads into the state's largest city. Panicky white homeowners spoke of selling their ...

Several detainees escaped during a riot at Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ. The riot stemmed from protests over insufficient food and other poor conditions, including reports of boiling water spraying from ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A black-and-white photograph ...

I grew up during a time of assassinations. I’ve no memory of President John F. Kennedy’s slaying in Dallas a few months after I was born in 1963, and hazy ones of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F.