Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America

by Kevin Mumford

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814795633
• ISBN13: 9780814795637
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"