Junius Williams
Junius Williams is an attorney, educator, musician and community advocate. He is the director of the Abbott Leadership Institute at Rutgers-Newark; author of Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power; and producer of the digital archive "The North: Civil Rights and Beyond in Urban America" (riseupnorth.com). In 2016, he served as chairman of Newark Celebration350. He is pictured at New Hope Village, a Newark housing development on land originally acquired for a medical school complex.
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July 14, 2017Fifty years ago this week, in the summer of 1967, the streets of Newark exploded in violence. Here is a first-hand account of the tragic events that changed the city forever.
