A new book highlights the late photographer’s role in the historic riots that took place in the New Jersey city in 1967, including his stark Life magazine cover of a 12-year-old victim July 1967 will ...
And of course, the riots broke your heart.” Fontura was a rookie with the Newark police department during the summer of 1967 when the city exploded in riots that burned city blocks and cost 26 ...
Whatever the cause or causes of the crisis in Ferguson, five, ten years from now ... geographic assets, Newark, New Jersey has never fully recovered from its 1967 riot. This year, Newark elected ...