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History > USA > Civil rights > July 1967
Newark riots
Race riots engulf Detroit and Milwaukee, after similar disturbances in Los Angeles, Newark and Chicago
David Ginsburg - lawyer who led the presidential commission on race relations whose report, in 1968, warned that the United States was “moving toward two societies — one black, one white, separate and unequal”
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Newark riots
In July 1967, Newark erupted with violence after rumors circulated that a black cabdriver had been beaten and killed by white police officers.
He was actually alive — arrested and injured — but for many black residents, it was just another example of Newark’s systemic problems with police abuse, racism, and corruption.
After six days of unrest, 23 people were dead; 725 were injured.
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Newark riots July 1967
Newark Police officers fire at a fleeing Billy Furr
Bud Lee was on assignment for Life magazine in Newark in the summer of 1967 covering the riots sparked by the arrest and beating of a cab driver.
Photograph: Estate of Bud Lee
‘Where there is oppression, there is resistance’: the 1967 Newark riots – in pictures In the new book The War Is Here: Newark 1967, Life photographer Bud Lee documents the five-day-long riot that was sparked by the arrest and beating of a cab driver. In that time, 26 people were killed by police gunfire and thousands were arrested G Fri 19 May 2023 08.02 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/may/19/
Newark police officer stands over the body of Billy Furr
‘The state police were accosting people, pulling them out of cars and hitting them over the head,’ said Mann.
‘A sniper would shoot from a roof and they’d shoot one or two shots at the sniper and he’d run away.
Then they would empty three hundred rounds into the entire apartment building, shooting from the first floor to the fifth or sixth floors.’
Photograph: Estate of Bud Lee
‘Where there is oppression, there is resistance’: the 1967 Newark riots – in pictures In the new book The War Is Here: Newark 1967, Life photographer Bud Lee documents the five-day-long riot that was sparked by the arrest and beating of a cab driver. In that time, 26 people were killed by police gunfire and thousands were arrested G Fri 19 May 2023 08.02 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/may/19/
Joey Bass Jr lies wounded on the street as Officer Scarpone, one of the Newark policemen whose bullets hit him, stands over
‘When I talk about the rebellion, first of all, violence was brought into that Black community,’ said H Rap Brown, speaking at the 1967 Black Power Conference.
‘Black people did not become violent until the racist honky cops came down up in there, with all their arms, and then Black people began to defend themselves.’
Photograph: Estate of Bud Lee
‘Where there is oppression, there is resistance’: the 1967 Newark riots – in pictures In the new book The War Is Here: Newark 1967, Life photographer Bud Lee documents the five-day-long riot that was sparked by the arrest and beating of a cab driver. In that time, 26 people were killed by police gunfire and thousands were arrested G Fri 19 May 2023 08.02 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/may/19/
Newark police in a patrol car, July 1967
‘Essentially, there were two riots in Newark,’ said Eric Mann, Newark Community Union Project organizer.
‘One was started by black people and one by the state police.
The first riot was over in two days, it took very few lives but a hell of a lot of property.
The second riot was pure retribution on the part of the national guard and state police.’
Photograph: Estate of Bud Lee
‘Where there is oppression, there is resistance’: the 1967 Newark riots – in pictures In the new book The War Is Here: Newark 1967, Life photographer Bud Lee documents the five-day-long riot that was sparked by the arrest and beating of a cab driver. In that time, 26 people were killed by police gunfire and thousands were arrested G Fri 19 May 2023 08.02 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/may/19/
A National Guardsman stands watch in Newark, July 1967 ‘I didn’t realize that I had anything that great, because I assume other photographers are getting similar stuff,’ said Lee. ‘I knew that violence was all over and there were many, many more people killed, and more tragic events. But they weren’t recorded, because the photographers weren’t nearby.’
Photograph: Estate of Bud Lee
‘Where there is oppression, there is resistance’: the 1967 Newark riots – in pictures In the new book The War Is Here: Newark 1967, Life photographer Bud Lee documents the five-day-long riot that was sparked by the arrest and beating of a cab driver. In that time, 26 people were killed by police gunfire and thousands were arrested G Fri 19 May 2023 08.02 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/may/19/
Chained arrestees being loaded into a Sheriff’s van, Newark, July 1967
‘I believe that the press does cause riots,’ said Lee. ‘Because when you have TV cameras and press people, people act. They all become James Bond. They all become superheroes. They act in front of the lenses.’
Photograph: Estate of Bud Lee
‘Where there is oppression, there is resistance’: the 1967 Newark riots – in pictures In the new book The War Is Here: Newark 1967, Life photographer Bud Lee documents the five-day-long riot that was sparked by the arrest and beating of a cab driver. In that time, 26 people were killed by police gunfire and thousands were arrested G Fri 19 May 2023 08.02 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/may/19/
Photograph: Neal Boenzi The New York Times
A Newark at War With Itself
In July 1967, Newark erupted with violence after rumors circulated that a black cabdriver had been beaten and killed by white police officers.
He was actually alive — arrested and injured — but for many black residents, it was just another example of Newark’s systemic problems with police abuse, racism, and corruption.
After six days of unrest, 23 people were dead; 725 were injured.
We described the clashes between the National Guard and black residents with the language of war.
One of the front-page headlines on July 15 read, “Negroes Battle With Guardsmen.”
Another declared, “Sniper Slays Policeman.”
The main photo published that day showed National Guardsmen and police officers standing over black men face down on the ground, with a caption that said the authorities were “searching for weapons and stolen merchandise.”
The photo that was not published, above, shows a calmer scene that points to the wider trauma experienced by Newarkers who were not involved in the violence, but who watched their city burn and their neighbors bleed. NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/unpublished-black-history/
1967: Around 3,000 National Guardsmen were summoned to Newark to quell unrest after frustrations over police treatment and corruption erupted into violence.
It traumatized the city for decades.
Photograph: Neal Boenzi same picture, smaller size.
The New York Times
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The National Guard on Springfield Avenue in Newark on July 14, 1967.
Photograph: Don Hogan Charles The New York Times
50 years after the uprising Five Days of Unrest That Shaped, and Haunted, Newark NYT JULY 12, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/
Taking cover from sniper fire.
Photograph: Neal Boenzi The New York Times
50 years after the uprising Five Days of Unrest That Shaped, and Haunted, Newark NYT JULY 12, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/
A man gestures to a National Guardsman during a protest in Newark in 1967.
Photograph: New York Times/Getty
The Newark race riots 50 years on: is the city in danger of repeating the past? At least 26 people died in the rebellion of 1967, which devastated the city for decades.
But as Newark moves on and memory fades, those who remember 1967 worry about losing the connection between oppression then and now G Tuesday 11 July 2017 12.41 BST Last modified on Tuesday 11 July 2017 15.07 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jul/11/
McDarrah’s 1967 photo of LeRoi Jones (later known as Amiri Baraka), who had been beaten while in police custody after riots in Newark.
Photograph: The Estate of Fred W. McDarrah and Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
He Was the Visual Voice of the Village Voice NYT Sept. 6, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/
Outside Amiri Baraka's Spirit House in Newark during the first national Black Power Conference
‘There was a riot breaking out, o they sent a limousine,’ said Lee.
‘So here I am in the backseat of a limousine with a chauffeur going into the worst ghetto in the country.’
Photograph: Estate of Bud Lee
‘Where there is oppression, there is resistance’: the 1967 Newark riots – in pictures In the new book The War Is Here: Newark 1967, Life photographer Bud Lee documents the five-day-long riot that was sparked by the arrest and beating of a cab driver. In that time, 26 people were killed by police gunfire and thousands were arrested G Fri 19 May 2023 08.02 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/may/19/
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