Every history class needs to teach the uprising in Newark in 1967. We need to teach all American History , the good, the bad, and strive for a better tomorrow and learn from the past.

Will you PLEASE do a video narrative on Paul R. Williams, the first black architect who commissioned drawings to who’s who in the entertainment industry and has buildings still standing today in Los Angeles. I love your narratives. They’re cool and informative!

Thanks for an informative and balanced report on the riots. I lived in East Orange, on the border of Newark during that time. It was a tenuous five days. We didn't learn much about the cause, just that it was happening. All we knew about it was what we heard on TV. Thanks for filling in some of the gaps. 55 years later, still putting everything into perspective.

I am amazed. At a loss for words. This video taught me so much. It should be shown in every school. Beautifully done; the research alone is impressive but the presentation using old photographs, drawings, and news clips is mesmerizing..

I was born in Newark NJ..1972.... going to school is was hard...

Good work documenting this brother!

I am amazed. At a loss for words. I learned so much and think this video should be shown in every school. The research alone is very impressive but the presentation using old photographs, news clippings, and drawings is so good. I didn't want it to end.

very interesting program, thank you 👍

I moved here in 1965 I was 6 months old and coming from Miami Beach Florida, "I don't know what my father was thinking". But jobs in the South weren't paying enough so he decided to bring us up here to East Orange New Jersey which is a couple of blocks from Newark. Little did we know that in 2 years the Newark riots would break out and it got difficult after that. Newark does have a vibrant section that is called the hipster millennium White population section on the north side of downtown Newark. So gentrification has happened here in Newark the surounding areas are still as the map in this video portrays with that exception. But things aren't well here in Newark. It is no longer that vibrant suburban area.

Great information Brother!✊🏿

Neighboring Jersey City suffered from the same decline, disinvestment, and racial tensions as Newark yet that city has worked hard on cleaning itself up, redeveloping and attracting major new investment and residents. If current trends continue unabated, Jersey City could eventually surpass Newark as the largest city in New Jersey. Why is Newark still stagnant, decayed, and in the doldrums while the rest of the Tri state area is booming and prospering. What is wrong with Newark?

This is good content, and the video's creator should feel proud. I did find the recurring graphic that simulates the production of a computer drawing to be distracting, however, and something that detracted from what was otherwise a top-notch video.

Well done sir!

I live in that time and in the riots my best friend brother was shot his photograph iin Life magazine July 1967. I remember that time just like it was yesterday.Where there is darkness crimes will be committed the guilty one is not the one who commits a crime but the one who created the darkness

Extremely constructive. Thanks for taking the time to produce this informative content. I look forward to consuming/sharing your content with like minds. #imstilllearning #keeplearning #staycodified #thecodeistheleader

Thank you, I live in Newark and anm seeing it come to life again in 2022 with new lofts, rentals And retail but they are NOT providing near enough housing for low income, however Newark offers tremendous opportunities for education and decent jobs with benefits. I believe money rules and there is no real regard for low income housing sadly. If residents would go after the opportunities it would eliminate the need for the low income housing.

My my my! You my Dear are just too Refreshing! Do you realize how long I've been searching, praying to find someone like YOU!!!! I've been researching as many riots and masscres involving Blacks fighting for their Civil Rights and you are the first I've found who has taken the time out Beautifully put the information tohether. I believe it is Very important that WE start getting out our own stories. That's been my major complaint. Can we take an interest in our OWN struggle\history.

Grew up in Newark 1967 age 8 the riot was devastating gun fire , fires 🔥 at night sirens beautiful Springfield ave and other businesses destroyed life property loss it was a scary time especially so young asked my father why he said son we as a people have had enough and now releasing rage held in for so long 😢

Following the riots Newark, NJ got its first back mayor in 1970's

I was a member of the N J National Guard in 1967 and immediately deployed to Springfield Avenue in Newark, which was the very heart of the riots and unfortunately significant destruction. I spent 5 days sleeping outside in the old Roosevelt Stadium during the day and being deployed each night .That was 54 years ago and my primary observation remains how the rioters in Newark burned down their own neighborhoods! Soon after the riots, just as 1 example, ALL major grocery stores moved OUT of Newark, leaving the poor people of the inner city ( of Newark) with few options o purchase even the basics of food and having to spend more for the very basics at much smaller specialty stores, etc.This in turn frustrated the people even more.I believe that riots unfortunately hurt the very people that riot! BTW I was shot at by a sniper on a roof on the 1st night on Springfeild Ave. Thankfully he missed.

Same thing happening now as then. Their plan was fulfilled. Controlled integration. Now they have us, exactly where they want us physically and mentally.

My grandfather (RIP) from Newark Stratford Pl and he told me he "I stayed my ass in the house" 😂 maybe this is why you rarely rarely hear about cops shooting black folk in Jersey period let alone Newark

What has changed

Wow, I was born 10 years later😮

Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow 😊

Weird how this was '67. Looks way older.

I'd love to hear your thoughts. What do you think about the Newark Rebellion and its impact? Or just share your general comments on what you saw in the video. And if you want to get your hands on the coloring page I was working on, click the link in the description above.

This is real Christianity!

So Newark was a great place to live. What happened???

Ed sunn keep it strong black America fight to the end

I thought you did a great job! But what happened in Newark was a uprising. Not a riot. You did an excellent job on expressing what the pre conditions were. By the way I lived in Newark during the uprising.

I would love to figure out a way to bring more vibrance to Newark... Newark is a city of mostly black working families today so I don't think the town needs to focus on bringing whites to the city although I pray that whites would feel welcome in the city if they chose to live here.... I hate to focus on our differences as people and now more then ever I wish to focus on us all being of one race one people all children of GOD... If this vibrance came to the city all would benefit greatly and pray that day comes soon no matter what it takes I believe in all people in GOD and in the future of a better tomorrow...

There goes the neighborhood

Things came close but local governments fear the use of the national guard because they know that can cause the end of their communities

This video is for me an example of why "Critical Race Theory" is one of the best ideas to come out any law school in American history. The analysis of federal and state laws and policies that negatively affected and still affect black Americans is the only way to make positive change. It is not a tool to divide people or to call white people evil, it is a fact-based inquiry into social problems that reasonable people should credit and support. Great job!

Well, I lived in this area during this time. And while you’re depiction of what had transpired is true. And I specifically mentioned that it is true. It only tells half the story. Like my grandmother used to say it takes two to tango. This did not happen in a vacuum, and it was not entirely provoked by the government. You are leaving out the blacks participation in the actual riots. Maybe they weren’t getting adequate representation. But they kept voting for and still keep voting for the same Democrat party. And it was Black people, looting and rioting. And those people had to live with the destruction that they made for many many years. I remember projects going up beautiful buildings for people to inhabit at low cost and those same buildings 10/20 years later being demolished, What you hope to succeed in but other than Destroying your own environment is beyond me. I remember a time where after those riots I don’t think there was one food store with in the city limits of Newark for probably another 40 years give or take 10 years one way or another. And for black folks to succeed in my opinion, they have to accept responsibility for their actions and a lot of this destruction, none of this takes place in a vacuum. I understand that. My point is. Government is no one‘s friend. The black community should have found the wherewithal within themselves to pick themselves up by their bootstraps or continue to live in squalor. I’ll tell you one thing for sure. My European relatives would never have stood for it. Even if the government came in and destroyed their living space. They would’ve taken it upon themselvesto start over with nothing. Like most of them did during the time of the depression.

All races could rise above this travesty without demonizing their fellows, and you who try to extort other people are just as guilty rudeness has rubbed off on you or was it there all along?

So, it’s 2023 and still nothing had changed.

The first sentence is the solution.

The extension of this is the establishment of the NOI (Nation of Islam) creating a hub in Newark many of the FOI (Fruit of Islam) security and soldiers of the nation were from Newark as an extension of this event

Beautiful city ruined

You mean you are going to crush black people in this city

We Americans acted outraged by how the Germans treated the Jews in the 1940s while we treated the blacks the same if not worse here in America until the 60s had a civil rights movement finally. That’s very recent.

Happy bday MLK 2022

I was 9 years old during the 1967 riots Newark was golden. however black leaders encouraged people to burn down their own houses the Italian's did not moved from North Newark, they line up with guns and dare anyone to come into the area, my father worked in Kearny, a town next to Newark and within a week of the riots we moved to Kearny a mostly white town so black folks moved from Newark also it was a horror site as our windows were shot out because someone was on the roof throwing molotov cocktails at the Nation guards in tanks, and I could go on, but I will never understand why you would burn down where you live, and the current Mayor of Newark's father was encouraging this crazy😢

Thank You. I have read about the year 1919 when race riots took place SO many places against Black people. B1❤

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Houses outside Newark looks better with lawns and backyards(reminds me of real america). Entire newark looks cramped, houses are 2-3 feet apart. From an Asian immigrant perspective

Might add, during this period Blacks also started leaving Newark and crossing into Irvington( which is now somewhat north of 80% Black. There were also riots in Plainfield and in Perth Amboy. Interesting to note that following the Newark riots they arrested over 1500 rioters and yet in the January 6 2021 takeover of the Capitol in DC no one has been arrested - hmmmmnnnnnn!!!!!

Newark is a dangerous j

Northward!!!!!!

University of medicine and dentistry was build after the riots

1967: we are not going to tolerate violence! we are going to crush violence! 2020: if the looting starts! the shooting starts! thank you!!

Lots of gaps in this story

Nothing has changed nowadays

The "white power structure" was voted out more than 50 years ago. So what is holding back progress in Newark?

Now in 2020 BLM looks exactly the same no change at all

THERE WERE NO SNIPERS !

What do I think? First of all, you need to get your dates right.

They always ruin where th