Word: newarkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lindsay's unique touch with the poor confined to New York. Touring Newark slums last week as vice chairman of the President's Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (other commission members were visiting Detroit and New York), he was quickly recognized and surrounded. "You're the most beautiful cat in the world," one man told him. Lindsay just smiled. He had heard it before...
Elsewhere, however, TV coverage was just as riotous as the ghettos. Anyone who stood on a street corner of Newark and screamed loudly enough was sure to get on the air. "Television seems to have the knack of picking people off the street who were the most volatile and leading them into making the most violent kind of statements," complains Newark Police Director Dominick A. Spina. The stations made no attempt to sort out the various agitators they put on-camera or assess their importance. "They picked on every black face who proclaimed himself a leader," says Donald Malafronte, administrative...
Similarly, in Plainfield, N.J., officials contended that TV coverage egged on the rioters. "They gave the impression that the whole town was going up in flames," says Mayor George F. Hetfield. "Soon we had busloads of people coming in from Philadelphia and Newark who were professional manipulators." In turn, TV interviewed the newcomers as if they were experts on Plainfield. A Negro identified by NBC as the pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church claimed that the police were prolonging the riots in order to beat more Negroes. Plainfield clergymen complained to NBC that the man was a recent arrival...
...Angeles situation, 108 California insurance companies have formed a $15 million, assigned-risk "Watts pool" that has insured more than 500 merchants against fire and riot damage-though not against the threat of theft that such businessmen face daily. Similar plans are likely to emerge in both Newark and Detroit...
...argument that repeal of ASP would damage the industry and cause large-scale job cuts among semi-skilled workers. According to the industry these people are often Negroes and Puerto Ricans, who would have great difficulty finding other jobs with similar pay. The industry often points out that Newark and New Jersey would be particularly threatened...