Residents rally at Englewood City Hall, August 31, 1967.
Photo, Bergen Record.
Remembrances of Newark, Plainfield and other towns during the summer of 1967 wind down this week.
Today's New York Times has a report in the New Jersey section on the meeting held at the Friends Meetinghouse a week ago yesterday. [Read more...]
On Thursday, the Bergen Record ran a story about the weekling Englewood disturbances of 1967. The tone is quite different from media recollections of Plainfield. [Read more...]
Lastly, Bob Rixon, a fellow blogger who posts at The Rix Mix and lives down the shore but grew up in Roselle Park, has posted two of his own very personal recollections of that summer -- one about Plainfield, and another telling the story of a delivery he made in Newark the day before the riots began.
NY Times - 7/22/2007: "Plainfield Ponders the Legacy of Its Own Bloody ’67 Riots"
Bergen Record - 7/19/2007: "Racial disturbances in '67 left Englewood forever altered"
Bob Rixon: "Plainfield 1967"
Box Rixon: "Delivery to Newark"
-- Dan Damon
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1 comments:
Thanks for the mention. I currently reside in Elizabeth NJ, previously lived in Rahway & Linden for many years, & grew up in Roselle Park. But I'm proudly a Benny.
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