A Mayor for All the People : : Kenneth Gibson's Newark / / ed. by Robert C. Holmes, Richard W. Roper.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Adubato, Fran,; Adubato, Steve,; Bierbaum, Martin,; Bross, Sheldon,; Coleman, Bonnie,; Dinkins, David,; Gibson, Camille Savocca,; Gibson, Harold,; Hill, Elton,; Hodes, Harold,; Holmes, Robert C.,; James, Sharpe,; Kukla, Barbara,; Means, Fred,; Oliver, Sheila,; Payne, William,; Pickett, Robert,; Rice, Ronald,; Roper, Richard W.,; Soaries, Deforest B.,; Tufo, Elizabeth Del,; Ubarry, Grizel,; Villani, Marie,; Williams, Junius,
• HerausgeberIn: Holmes, Robert C.,; Roper, Richard W.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 p.) :; 15 B-W photographs

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• FOREWORD
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION How should we measure the historical significance of the Kenneth Gibson era in new ark?
• Chapter 1 ON BEING FIRST
• Chapter 2 NAVIGATING RACIAL POLITICS
• Chapter 3 FRIENDS AND FAMILY
• Chapter 4 TRYING TO MAKE CITY GOVERNMENT WORK
• Chapter 5 AN IN-DEPTH LOOK INSIDE CITY GOVERNMENT
• Chapter 6 WORKING WITH THE ANCHOR INSTITUTIONS
• Chapter 7 FORCES BEYOND CONTROL
• Chapter 8 MAYOR GIBSON REFLECTS
• Conclusion GIBSON’S LEGACY the man, the time, and the place, 1970–1986
• AFTERWORD
• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX