Word: newark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LeRoi Jones, 33, the snarling laureate of Negro revolt, has distilled his rage against white America in poems and plays whose spectrum has room only for black. "The Black Artist must teach the White Eyes their deaths," Jones writes. And when Newark, his birthplace, was aflame with Negro rioting last July, Jones appeared bent on augmenting his words with action. Heading into the eye of the violence, police testified, Jones had concealed a brace of pearl-handled .32-cal. revolvers beneath the dashboard of his green camper bus and under the folds of his multihued African dashike tunic...
Judge Kapp would have none of it. "I believe you were an active participant to burn Newark," he told the unrepentant author, and then cited a poem published in last December's Evergreen Review in which Jones exhorted Negroes to "smash the window at night (these are magic actions) .. . Just take what you want. Take their lives if need be, but get what you want." "You are sick," lectured the judge. "Not as sick as you," shot back Jones before leaving for Trenton state prison...
...stolport will be used to improve connections between Manhattan and its small outlying satellite fields in Teterboro, N.J., Farmingdale, L.I., and Westchester County. The objective is to encourage private planes to use the satellite fields instead of the presently more convenient but overworked commercial jetports-Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark-to which small planes contribute 40% of the combined traffic during rush hours, and at La Guardia alone...
...Newark...
...grown to a real national organization with about 500 members. A year and a half later, summer 1964, the strength of community organizing as a tactic had gained general acceptance among the nation's activists. That summer SDS started the Economic Resistance into Action Project (ERAB) in Boston, Newark, Cleveland, Baltimore and Chicago. About 150 radicals worked full time to organize ghettos on unemployment, rent, and welfare considerations...