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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey"
Colored People to Elect This Evening
1922-05-03
Article in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News announcing a business meeting and elections for the local NAACP, to take place at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Treatment of Negroes
1922-05-06
Opinion piece by a reporter in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News.
Colored Preacher Asks What Is the Matter with New Brunswick
1922-05-29
Article in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News: "Colored Preacher Asks What Is the Matter with New Brunswick; Declares Negro Has Made More Enemies in Times of Peace Than in War—Urges His People to Have Faith in Themselves."
Colored Race is Jubilant Because of Dyer Bill Report
1922-07-06
Article in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News about the local reaction to Washington reports about the progress on the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill.
Colored Folks Get Edge Pledge to Vote for Anti-Lynching Bill
1922-07-29
Article in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News about a recent meeting of the New Brunswick NAACP, a roll-call showing that the organization stands at approximately 200 members. The officers announce that US Senator Walter E. Edge of New…
Colored Advancement Meetings to Alternate Between Two Churches
1922-08-01
Article in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News announcing that the meetings of the New Brunswick NAACP will henceforth alternate between Ebenezer Baptist Church and Mt. Zion AME Church.
Colored Folk Plan Labor Day Demonstration
1922-08-05
Article in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News about a recent meeting of the New Brunswick NAACP at Mt. Zion AME Church. Plans and fundraising are underway for a big Labor Day Demonstration.
Colored People Plan Labor Day Mass Meeting
1922-08-24
Article in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News about a recent meeting of the New Brunswick NAACP at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Plans are underway for a mass meeting on Labor Day, where the parent-association is expected to present the…
Anti-Lynching Demonstration at Mount Zion
1922-09-05
Article in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News: "Anti-Lynching Demonstration at Mount Zion; Colored Republicans Endorse Dwyer Bill—Rev. Stiles Urges Recognition of Negro Rights—Rev. Roundtree Speaks."
Colored People Hear Fine Addresses on Advancement of Race at Mass Meeting
1922-09-05
Article in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News about NAACP's mass meeting at the Ebenezer Baptist Church.
League for Advancement of Colored Folk to Meet
1922-12-20
Article in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News announcing NAACP's last meeting of the year at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
12,000 of Klan Out at Jersey Meeting: Hold Heavily Guarded Initiation on a Lonely Farm Near New Brunswick
1923-05-03
New York Times article about a massive Ku Klux Klan (KKK) initiation ceremony held on May 2, 1923, at a farm near New Brunswick.
Klan Open-Air Initiation Was Great Publicity Stunt; Declare Local Branch 400 Strong; Hobbs Not a Member
1923-05-04
Daily Home News article about a massive Ku Klux Klan (KKK) initiation ceremony held on May 2, 1923, at a farm near New Brunswick. The article contains a photograph of a burning cross and hooded attendees. The photograph is captioned: "Blaxing…
10,000 Klansmen Gather in Great Klan Ceremony; New Brunswick Is Scene of One of the Greatest Ku Klux Demonstrations; Gigantic Cross Is Burned as Almost One Thousand Candidates Are Initiated
1923-05-11
Article in The Fiery Cross (a Ku Klux Klan publication) about a massive KKK initiation ceremony held on May 2, 1923, at a farm near New Brunswick.
Ku Klux Cross Near J. & J. Plant; South River Also
1923-08-10
New Brunswick Daily Home News reports that members of the Ku Klux Klan burned two crosses overnight. One fifteen-foot cross was discovered in front of the Johnson & Johnson factory on George Street in New Brunswick; it was promptly extinguished…
Rutgers Honors James Neilson
1923-11-22
A brief report in The New York Times about Rutgers University's memorial service for James Neilson (1844-1937) after his death in 1937. The report calls him the "godfather" of the women's college (Douglass College).
Local Colored People Oppose Extradition of Man in Georgia Murder
1923-12-10
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News: "Local Colored People Oppose Extradition of Man in Georgia Murder; Retain Lawyer Kalteissen to Fight Move Before Governor—Assert Fair Trial in South Impossible."
Colored Citizens of New Brunswick AWAKE! Flyer for Mass Meeting in support of Silas Parmore
1923-12-16
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. New Brunswick Branch (NAACP)
NAACP flyer promoting the mass meeting in support of Silas Parmore. The meeting took place on Sunday, December 16, 1923, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Hold Hearing in Paremore Case Before Governor
1923-12-17
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News.
Colored Congregations Unite in Mass Meeting to Save Southern Negro
1923-12-17
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News: "Colored Congregations Unite in Mass Meeting to Save Southern Negro; Fund of $100 Subscribed at Ebenezer Baptist—Attorney Kalteissen Cheered and Made Deacon."
Extradition Granted; Habeas Corpus Writ is Still Keeping Negro Here
1923-12-18
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News: "Extradition Granted; Habeas Corpus Writ is Still Keeping Negro Here; Governor Silzer Signs Papers for Return of Silas Parmore to Georgia—Counsel at Once Starts New…
Letter to Walter F. White regarding the Silas Parmore case
1923-12-18
Preston, M. J.
Letter from M. J. Preston of the New Brunswick NAACP to Walter F. White regarding the Silas Parmore case.
Maintenance of Mrs. Parmore is Given Kalteissen
1923-12-19
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News: "Maintenance of Mrs. Parmore is Given Kalteissen; County Authorities Turn Colored Woman Over to Local Association; latter satisfied as to treatment."
Lee and David at Wide Variance on Parmore Facts
1923-12-20
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News: "Lee and David at Wide Variance on Parmore Facts; Colored Clergyman Asserts Wife of Accused Southerner Was Hidden; statement coming from Kalteissen."
Parmore's Wife Feels Certain Lynching Would Follow Return to Georgia
1923-12-21
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News: "Parmore's Wife Feels Certain Lynching Would Follow Return to Georgia; Details Trap Set For Husband By Attache of Prosecutor's Office—Confident Defendant Is…
No Trap Laid for Parmore, Is David Assertion
1923-12-22
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News.
Petition Put in Circulation for Parmore Aid
1923-12-22
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News.
Parmore Writ Argument Goes Off to January 8
1923-12-24
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News.
Silas Parmore Defense Fund pledge card
1924
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. New Brunswick Branch (NAACP)
Pledge card used in the NAACP fundraising campaign for the Silas Parmore Defense Fund.
Decision in Parmore Case Is Held
1924-01-08
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News: "Decision in Parmore Case Is Held; Habeas Corpus Hearing in Matter of Georgia Negro, Held for Murder; counsel directed to submit briefs."
How Georgia Newspaper Views Attempts Here to Bar Extradition of Parmore
1924-01-09
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News.
Young Parmore, Held as Witness, Is Released
1924-01-10
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News: "Young Parmore, Held as Witness, Is Released; Vice Chancellor Frees Son of Man in Georgia Murder; no decision yet on habeas corpus."
Take Issue with Georgia Paper on Parmore's Arrest
1924-01-10
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News.
Parmore Record Made Public by Detective David
1924-01-10
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News.
Parmore to Be Sent to Georgia
1924-01-15
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News: "Parmore to Be Sent to Georgia; Negro Loses Fight Against Extradition on Charge of Murder; will take appeal to errors court."
Parmore Appeal Is Put on File
1924-01-16
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News: "Parmore Appeal Is Put on File; Counsel For Georgia Man Declare Case May Go to U. S. Supreme Court; costs deposited at Trenton today."
Two-Year Delay Seen By Lawyers In the Parmore Case
1924-01-19
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News.
Make Anti-Lynching Bill a Law Before the Parmore Fight Is Dropped
1924-01-21
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News: "Make Anti-Lynching Bill a Law Before the Parmore Fight Is Dropped; Colored People Make Further Contributions at Meeting—State-Wide Gathering Scheduled for Newark."
Statement of receipts and expenses in the Parmore case
1924-04-07
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. New Brunswick Branch (NAACP)
Statement of receipts and expenses in the Silas Parmore case on NAACP New Brunswick Branch letterhead, dated April 7, 1924.
Parmore Convicted and Sentenced to Pay Death Penalty; Record Trial in Georgia Court of Negro Arrested Here Several Weeks Ago
1924-07-29
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News: "Record Trial in Georgia Court of Negro Arrested Here Several Weeks Ago; Case Started Yesterday Morning and Ended Early Last Evening; Extradition Was Bitterly…
Silas Paramore, Sentenced to Hang Last August, 'Feeling Fine'
1925-04-23
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News.
Paramore to Be Given New Trial
1925-10-09
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News: "Paramore to Be Given New Trial; Colored Man Arrested Here to be Tried in Dawson, Ga.; Kalteissen Wins Appeal Fight."
Acquitted on Second Trial for Murder
1925-11-18
Article about the Silas Parmore case in the New Brunswick newspaper Daily Home News: "Acquitted on Second Trial for Murder; Man Arrested Here Found Not Guilty in Georgia and Headed North; Likely to Soon Reappear Here."
Georgia Frees Negro Who Feared Mob Rule
1925-12-13
Article in the New York Times: "Georgia Frees Negro Who Feared Mob Rule; Silas Parmore, Extradited From New Jersey, Acquitted by a Jury in Murder Trial."
Charter Granted to Local Klan; Rutgers Klan Title of Local Chapter of the Ku Klux Klan
1926-03-07
New Brunswick Sunday Times reports that a new local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan is established in New Brunswick in March of 1926. The title of the new chapter is "Rutgers Klan number 44."
Cross Burned by Rutgers Klan at Local Cemetery
1926-06-01
New Brunswick Daily Home News reports about a ceremony held by the Rutgers Klan No. 44 in May of 1926.
Map of the New Jersey College for Women (later Douglass College) showing land donated by James Neilson
1929
This 1929 map of the New Jersey College for Women (later Douglass College) shows the extent of James Neilson's land that he donated to the college.
Keeps Preparing [graduation announcement for Egerton E. Hall]
1933-06-14
Article in the New York Amsterdam News reporting that the Rev. Egerton E. Hall of Plainfield, NJ, has earned the degree of Doctor of Education at Rutgers University. A photograph of Hall is included with the announcement.
Veronica Henriksen Wins Scholarship
1942-11-02
The Plainfield Courier-News reports that Veronica Henriksen (DC 1944) is the recipient of a state scholarship.
Letter to Cornell Law School, regarding Harry Hazelwood Jr.
1943-05-21
Metzger, Fraser
Letter from Fraser Metzger, Dean of Men, to Cornell Law School, providing a reference for Harry Hazelwood Jr. RC1943. Hazelwood would go on to obtain a law degree from Cornell in 1945.
Veronica Henriksen Secretary of NJC Club
1944-02-28
The Plainfield Courier-News reports that Veronica Henriksen (DC 1944), in her capacity as secretary of the HEPS club at the New Jersey College for Women, is organizing a lecture by anthropologist John B. Adams on the subject "A Scientific Approach to…
Letter to Dean Fraser Metzger about progress at Cornell Law School
1944-05-16
Hazelwood, Harry Jr.
Letter from Harry Hazelwood Jr. RC1943 to Frazer Metzger, Dean of Men, written on May 16, 1944, providing an update about Hazelwood's progress at the end of his first year at Cornell Law School. Dean Metzger sent a reply to Hazelwood on May 19, 1944.
Letter to Harry Hazelwood Jr. at Cornell Law School
1944-05-19
Metzger, Fraser
Letter from Fraser Metzger, Dean of Men, to Harry Hazelwood Jr. RD1943, written on May 19, 1944, about a year after Hazelwood graduated. This is Metzger's reply to Hazelwood's letter of May 16, 1944, in which Hazelwood provided an update about his…
Veronica Henriksen Graduating from NJC
1944-06-07
The Plainfield Courier-News reports that Veronica Henriksen graduated from the New Jersey College for Women (Douglass College) on June 7, 1944, with a major in sociology and economy. Henriksen "in two weeks will begin an accelerated two years course…
Heritage Award presentation honoring Emma Andrews and Evelyn Sermons
1949-06-04
Davidson, Mrs. O. Wesley
Remarks delivered by Mrs. O. Wesley Davidson, President the Associate Alumnae of the New Jersey College for Women (later Douglass College), on June 4, 1949, honoring African American seniors Emma Andrews and Evelyn Sermons as joint recipients of the…
Negro Girls Win Heritage Award: Alumnae Honor Two Seniors as Interracial Pioneers at New Jersey College
1949-06-05
An article reporting that two African American seniors, Emma Andrews and Evelyn Sermons, received the Heritage Award given by the Associate Alumnae of the New Jersey College for Women on June 4, 1949. They received the award for “contributing to the…
N.J.C. Seniors Receive Top Honors
1949-06-05
Article in the New Brunswick newspaper Sunday Times about the Heritage Award presented to Emma Andrews and Evelyn Sermons by the Associate Alumnae of the New Jersey College for Women (later Douglass College). The article contains a photograph of the…
Award for First Negroes Living on N.J.C. Campus
1949-06-07
An article reporting that two African American seniors, Emma Andrews and Evelyn Sermons, received the Heritage Award given by the Associate Alumnae of the New Jersey College for Women. The citation with the award read: “With quiet understanding, rare…
Resigns from Board
1949-06-16
An article reporting that Emma Andrews and Evelyn Sermons, two African American seniors at the New Jersey College for Women, “expressed gratitude for the aid from the Urban League which made possible their stay in the N.J.C. dormitories.”
Klemmer Kalteissen dies at 89; former N.J. Superior Court judge
1984-04-18
Obituary for Klemmer Kalteissen.
Frelinghuysen Hall photograph
Rutgers University
Color photograph of Frelinghuysen Residence Hall, built in 1956 on Rutgers University's College Avenue Campus in New Brunswick.
Hardenbergh Hall photograph
Rutgers University
Color photograph of Hardenbergh Residence Hall, built in 1956 on Rutgers University's College Avenue Campus in New Brunswick.
Sojourner Truth Apartments photograph
Rutgers University
Color photograph of the Sojourner Truth Apartments, opened in 2016 and located at the corner of College Avenue and Hamilton Street on the College Avenue Campus.