A mayor for all the people? : Kenneth Gibson's Newark / edited by Robert C. Holmes and Richard W. Roper.

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"Kenneth Allen Gibson, the first African American mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was born in 1931 in the town of Enterprise, Alabama. He graduated from high school in Enterprise in 1950 and joined the U.S. Army as a civil engineer. He remained in the Army until 1958. After his discharge, he took a job...

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Other Authors: Holmes, Robert C., approximately 1944- (Editor), Roper, Richard W. (Editor), Coleman, Bonnie Watson (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Gibson, Kenneth A.
Mayors > New Jersey > Newark > Biography.
Newark (N.J.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
African American mayors > New Jersey > Newark > Biography.
Newark (N.J.) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Newark (N.J.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Urban renewal > New Jersey > Newark.
Interviews > New Jersey > Newark.
Newark (N.J.) > Biography.
African American mayors.
Economic history.
Interviews.
Mayors.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Urban renewal.
New Jersey > Newark.
1900-1999
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:xviii, 326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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Call Number: F144.N653 G53 2020
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