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Article Evaluation: The 1967 Newark Riots

- There is a plethora of facts where citations are missing.

- In the background, there is no expansion on the phrase "white flight"; one could specify the causation of the white middle-class emigrating from Newark.

- There is a lot to be expanded upon the "aftermath and impact" section.

- In the Talk page, people are disputing the facts that were claimed in the article -- people based their disputations on a mix of personal experience and facts. There are also a couple messages from automated bots, notifying the writers of the page that some of the links to their citations are dead.

- The article is of interest to the following WikiProjects: WikiProject United States, WikiProject New Jersey, and WikiProject African diaspora.

- The article is different from the way we discuss topics in class in the way it presents information in a factual manner from secondary resources; when we discuss these topics in class, we tend to use our personal observations and experiences to support the validity of a viewpoint.

Background
Due to the legislation of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, white veterans, who had just returned from fighting in World War II, began to emigrate from Newark to the suburbs — a place where they would have access to interstate highways, low-interest mortgages, and college. The outflow suburban sprawl of white veterans from Newark was rapidly replaced with an influx of blacks moving into the Central Ward; the blacks, however, faced discrimination in jobs and housing, ultimately making their lives exponentially more likely to fall into a cycle of poverty.

Inciting Incident
A person who had witnessed the arrest of Smith contacted members of the Congress of Racial Equality, the United Freedom Party, and the Newark Community Union Project for further investigation; they were subsequently granted access to Smith's 4th Precinct holding cell. After seeing the injuries Smith sustained from the police, they ordered him to be moved to Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, and were granted their request.

Riots
Nevertheless, the 1967 Newark Riots are considered to be New Jersey's worst civil disorder in history.

Aftermath and Impact
Historians have deemed the days following the main riots to be "police riots," where officers were shooting into buildings and at looting groups on the street. Police autorities were claiming to be shooting at the snipers, but historians are skeptical of the validity of this argument. When analyzed, most of the indviduals killed during the riots were black residents of Newark. Today, there are a myriad of projects sweeping through Newark to remember the atrocities that Newark faced in 1967. NJ Advance Medial special project came out with a documentary called "Crossroads: The 1967 Newark Riots" on the 50th anniverary of the event.