Manuscript Group 1689, Stanley B. Winters Papers 1944-2011 Bulk 1960s-1970s

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Descriptive Summary
Biographical Note
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement
Access Points
Related Material
Administrative Information
Bibliography

Series Descriptions and Container List

Series 1: Stanley Winters writings
Series 2: Correspondence, reviews, conference materials, photographs, etc.
Series 3: Newark mayors/organizations/people
Series 4: General Newark Information (historical, urban, race issues).
Series 5: State/national/international issues– politics, urban preservation, etc.
Series 6: Meeting minutes
Series 7: Court dockets (blight determination case, Stanley B. and Helen Winters are among the Plaintiffs suing the City of Newark over a declaration of blight)
Series 8: Media audio/visual materials

Stanley B. Winters Papers
1944-2011
Bulk 1960s-1970s
MG 1689

The New Jersey Historical Society
52 Park Place
Newark, New Jersey 07102
Contact: NJHS Library
Phone: (973) 596-8500 x249
Email: library@jerseyhistory.org
URL: https://www.jerseyhistory.org
© 2011 All rights reserved.
The New Jersey Historical Society, Publisher
Inventory prepared by Julia Telonidis.

Finding aid encoded by Julia Telonidis. October 2011. Finding aid written in English.

Descriptive Summary

Biographical Note

Stanley Bisguier Winters was a prominent Newark, New Jersey based professor and activist who was known for his scholarship on Newark’s urban, race, and political issues during the 1960s and 1970s.

Born in New York City in 1924, Winters graduated from New York University and earned a doctorate from Rutgers University. He taught history at NJIT beginning in 1957. In addition to his teaching and scholarly work, he became a prominent force as a Newark neighborhood-rights, political, and civil rights activist.

He moved to the Clinton Hill section of Newark in the 1940s. In the 1950s, he co-founded the Clinton Hill Neighborhood Council which fought for neighborhood preservation and improvement, and against the urban renewal policies of the time. He was among the plaintiffs in a 1964 lawsuit against the City of Newark over the declaration of parts of the Clinton Hill neighborhood as a blighted area.

Winters was active in the local civil rights movement, serving as a member of the Executive Board of the Newark NAACP. He wrote a weekly column “Inside Newark” for the Newark edition of the New Jersey Afro-American from 1958 to 1964. He was a good friend and advisor to Newark’s first black mayor, Kenneth Gibson, and was very active in his political campaign. Winters himself also ran for office twice. He ran once for South Ward Councilman in 1962 and again for Essex County Freeholder in 1965.

Winters was also a noted scholar of the Newark riots of 1967. He organized a 1977 conference to mark the 10th anniversary of the riots. This event led to the publication of his book From Riot to Recovery: Newark After Ten Years.

Winters was also a World War II veteran and served in Eastern Europe. This sparked his interest in the history and culture of the area, particularly that of Czechoslovakia. He became a well known Czech scholar, writing a variety of published articles relating to Czechoslovakia.

Winters retired from NJIT in 1991 and retired to Florida. He died on January 28, 2011.

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Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of papers, photographs, and audiovisual materials pertaining to Stanley B. Winters. Included are many of his writings on urban renewal, and civil rights in Newark. There are essays, reviews, notes, conference materials and clippings of newspaper articles, many of which pertain to race and urban issues. There are also photographs, slides, reel to reel films and floppy disks. There is a small amount of material regarding his scholarly activities pertaining to Eastern Europe, especially Czechoslovakia.

There is correspondence with various prominent Newarkers, including mayors, and various Newark organizations. There is ephemera, including flyers and brochures, and materials relating to local election campaigns, including those of Winters. There are municipal council meeting minutes and dockets from a court case filed against the city of Newark regarding a declaration of neighborhood blight. Overall, the collection offers a representation of Newark in the late 1960s to 1970s and the civil rights, urban, political and redevelopment issues that were prevalent at the time.

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Arrangement

The papers are organized into eight series:

Series 1: Stanley Winters writings, 1953-2007.
Series 2: Correspondence, reviews, conference materials, photographs, etc., 1944- 2008.
Series 3: Newark mayors/organizations/people, 1956-2011.
Series 4: General Newark Information (historical, urban, race issues), 1942-2008.
Series 5: State/national/international issues– politics, urban preservation, etc., 1967-2010.
Series 6: Meeting Minutes, Municipal Council, City of Newark, 1967-1981.
Series 7: Court dockets (blight determination case, Stanley B. and Helen Winters are among the Plaintiffs suing the City of Newark over a declaration of blight), 1964.
Series 8: Media audio/visual materials, 1961-2001.

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Access Points

The entries below represent persons, organizations, topics, forms, and occupations documented in this collection.

Subject Names:

Addonizio, Hugh J., 1914-1981.
Aldridge, Doug.
Booker, Cory.
Carlin, Leo P.
Curvin, Bob.
Gibson, Kenneth A.
Grover, Warren.
James, Sharpe, 1936-
Winans, Derek.
Winters, Stanley B.

Subject Organizations:

Clinton Hill Neighborhood Council (Newark, N.J.).
Jewish Historical Society of MetroWest.
New Jersey Historical Society.
New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Newark History Society (Newark, N.J.).
Newark Preservation and Landmarks Committee (Newark, N.J.).
Newark Public Library.

Subject Topics:

African-Americans.
Civil rights
Education.
Eminent domain.
Mayors.
Minorities–Employment.
Political activists.
Race relations.
Riots–New Jersey–Newark.
Urban renewal.

Subject Places:

Essex County (N.J.)
Newark (N.J.)

Document Types:

Clippings.
Correspondence.
Ephemera.
Minutes.
Photographs.
Slides.

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Related Material

For other materials related to this collection, see:

MG 1684 Kenneth Gibson Papers, 1955-1984
MG 1673 Derek Winans Papers, 1862-2004
See also the manuscript collections at the Newark Public Library.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

This collection should be cited as: Manuscript Group 1689, Stanley B. Winters Papers, The New Jersey Historical Society.

Acquisition Information

The papers were donated to The New Jersey Historical Society by Zdenka Müllerová-Winters in 2011.

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Bibliography

NJIT Vector. “In memorial: Stanley B. Winters 1924-2011.”

NJ.com obituary. “Stanley Winters, historian who provided insight into 1967 Newark riots, dies at 86.”

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