1967 Newark Riots

23 people were killed during a National Guard occupation of Newark, NJ, in 1967. The Guard was called in after the racist police brutalization of a taxi driver was met with a collective response that overwhelmed local police. State police arrived first, and then the Guardsmen, initiating six days of warfare.

These websites archive the rebellion and street fighting that followed:

http://www.1967newarkriots.com/

http://www.67riots.rutgers.edu/n_index.htm

As far as books go, Rebellion In Newark, by Tom Hayden, details the events. A Nation Within A Nation, by Komozi Woodard, provides excellent context. (Not to be confused with a book of the same name about indigenous people in Wisconsin.)

I want to look at this in the context of similar urban conflict that erupted in different parts of the country around the same time, in the context of the Great Migration and the racial segregation that was ramped up to keep new arrivals precarious, the civil rights and Black Power movements and their relationship to "new left" and other radical currents, and the campaigns of repression designed to drive people away from political action.