The fixers : devolution, development, and civil society in Newark, 1960-1990 /
Rabig, Julia,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
At the crossroads -- Fighting for jobs in the "laboratory of democracy" -- Restructure or rebel: Newark's war on poverty -- "Case city number one": urban renewal and the Newark uprising -- Fixers emerge -- The making of a fixer: black power, corporate power, and affirmative action -- Fixers for the 1970s: the Stella Wright rent strike and the transformation of public housing -- Institutionalizing the movements -- Black power, neighborhood power, and the growth of organizational fixers -- From redeeming the cities to building the new ark: black nationalism and community economic development -- The new community corporation: Catholic roots, suburban leverage, and pragmatism
African Americans