TY - GEN N2 - Newark's volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of protest in the black community. Newark charts this important city's place in the nation, from its founding in 1666 by a dissident Puritan as a refuge from intolerance, through the days of Jim Crow and World War II civil rights activism, to the height of postwar integration and the election of its first black mayor.In this broad and balanced history of Newark, Kevin Mumford applies the concept of the public sphere to the problem of race relations, demonstrating how political ideas and print culture were instrumental in shaping African American consciousness. He draws on both public and personal archives, interpreting official documents - such as newspapers, commission testimony, and government records-alongside interviews, political flyers, meeting minutes, and rare photos.From the migration out of the South to the rise of public housing and ethnic conflict, Newark explains the impact of African Americans on the reconstruction of American cities in the twentieth century. DO - 10.18574/nyu/9780814761151.001.0001 DO - doi AB - Newark's volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of protest in the black community. Newark charts this important city's place in the nation, from its founding in 1666 by a dissident Puritan as a refuge from intolerance, through the days of Jim Crow and World War II civil rights activism, to the height of postwar integration and the election of its first black mayor.In this broad and balanced history of Newark, Kevin Mumford applies the concept of the public sphere to the problem of race relations, demonstrating how political ideas and print culture were instrumental in shaping African American consciousness. He draws on both public and personal archives, interpreting official documents - such as newspapers, commission testimony, and government records-alongside interviews, political flyers, meeting minutes, and rare photos.From the migration out of the South to the rise of public housing and ethnic conflict, Newark explains the impact of African Americans on the reconstruction of American cities in the twentieth century. T1 - Newark :A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America / AU - Mumford, Kevin, JF - New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 VL - 10 CN - F144.N6 LA - eng LA - In English. ID - 1479947 KW - African Americans KW - African Americans KW - Black nationalism KW - Civil rights movements KW - Riots KW - Written communication KW - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) KW - African. KW - American. KW - Americans. KW - From. KW - Newark. KW - century. KW - cities. KW - conflict. KW - ethnic. KW - explains. KW - housing. KW - impact. KW - migration. KW - public. KW - reconstruction. KW - rise. KW - south. KW - twentieth. SN - 9780814761151 TI - Newark :A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814761151 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814761151 ER -