http://www.newarkmemories.com/memories/607.php
Snippet:
On July 12, 1967, a Newark cab driver named John Smith drove past a parked Newark Police car in a "reckless" manner. He was already on a driving "revoked" list. The police chased and arrested him. Rumor spread through the Negro community that the cops had killed him. An unruly, ugly, angry mob surrounded the Fourth Precinct where he was being held and began pelting the building with bricks and stones and other things and the riots began. The riot went on for five days and five nights. In the end 26 people were killed, thousands of homes, apartments, and stores, where destroyed, and the final dollar cost of the insurrection was up in the millions.
The Mayor and the Police Department had warnings of the possibility of riot conditions at least a year before they happened and did very little about it. The Mayor rejected warnings he had received from some of the young Black militants about what was about to happen and instead listened to the "white-washed" stories of the Black clergymen. After the riots in other cities the Newark Police Dept. had been briefed about the possibility of riots here and the Newark Police Department had basically felt that they could keep the Black community in its place. The police were unprepared for the violence, which eventually did take place.
Even Martin Luther King was aware of what was about to happen here in Newark. A year or so before the riots he told and audience that there were about ten Northern cities - including Newark - that were to feel the "wrath of violence."
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Another snippet:
One of the rioters made the comment about all of the looting: "Who cares, Our people are getting what they want" - TV's, refrigerators, washing machines, clothes, etc.
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ANOTHER TRUTH FROM THAT PERIOD:
The two main areas of Newark that have survived pretty much in tact are the Down Neck and the North Newark areas. Why is that? It is because both of these areas were mostly Italian areas in the 50's and 60's. After the riots when Blacks came into these areas looking for trouble the Italian men came out in force and chased them out of the areas. The Italians were the only group who stood up for and protected their neighborhoods. All the rest of the groups - Irish, Polish, Germans's, Jews - fled the city without putting up much of a fight. The old saying holds true - "if you can't fight for what you have, then you don't deserve to have it." It's a shame that the White people "surrendered" this city to the Black's as easily as they did. However, I understand why they did it.
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ANTHONY IMPERIALE
Anthony Imperiale, 68, Dies; Polarizing Force in Newark - The ...
www.nytimes.com/1999/12/28/nyregion/anthony...
Dec 28, 1999 · Anthony Imperiale, a race-baiting civic leader and politician from Newark who became a national symbol of the backlash against urban unrest by wielding a baseball bat to defend his white... (neighborhood....)
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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION - DID IT MATTER?
THEY WANT TRUMP TO ADDRESS THE NATION - I ASK, "WHY?
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THEY HATE HIM, AS DO THE LIBTARDOS.
IT IS OF NO USE, AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED.
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