Kammala wannan jumla: A shekarun 1960, rikicin launin fata ya barke a yawancin biranen masana'antu na Arewacin Jersey. Rikicin farko na launin fata a New Jersey ya faru a Jersey City a ranar 2 ga Agusta, 1964. Wasu da yawa sun biyo baya a 1967, a cikin
Newark da kuma Plainfield. Sauran tarzoma sun biyo bayan kisan gillar Martin Luther King Jr. a watan Afrilu na 1968, kamar yadda a sauran ƙasar. An yi wani tashin hankali a Camden a shekara ta 1971. Sakamakon umarnin da Kotun Koli ta New Jersey ta bayar don tallafawa makarantu daidai, majalisar dokoki ta New Jersey ta zartar da lissafin harajin samun kudin shiga a shekarar 1976. Kafin wannan lissafin, jihar ba ta da harajin samun kudin shiga.