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A Mayor for All the People Kenneth Gibson's Newark - ebooks1001 - 03-18-2025
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Free Download Robert C. Holmes, "A Mayor for All the People: Kenneth Gibson's Newark"
English | ISBN: 0813598761 | 2019 | 354 pages | PDF | 2 MB
2021 winner of Edited Works category: New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance
In 1970, Kenneth Gibson was elected as Newark, New Jersey's first African-American mayor, a position he held for an impressive sixteen years. Yet even as Gibson served as a trailblazer for black politicians, he presided over a troubled time in the city's history, as Newark's industries declined and its crime and unemployment rates soared.
This book offers a balanced assessment of Gibson's leadership and his legacy, from the perspectives of the people most deeply immersed in 1970s and 1980s Newark politics: city employees, politicians, activists, journalists, educators, and even fellow big-city mayors like David Dinkins. The contributors include many of Gibson's harshest critics, as well as some of his closest supporters, friends, and family members-culminating in an exclusive interview with Gibson himself, reflecting on his time in office.
Together, these accounts provide readers with a compelling inside look at a city in crisis, a city that had been rocked by riots three years before Gibson took office and one that
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