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African Americans. MOVE (pronounced like the word "move"), originally the Christian Movement for Life, is a communal organization that advocates for nature laws and natural living, founded in 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by John Africa (born Vincent Leaphart). The name, styled in all capital letters, is not an acronym.
African Americans. The history of African Americans or Black Philadelphians in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has been documented in various sources. People of African descent are currently the largest ethnic group in Philadelphia. Estimates in 2010 by the U.S. Census Bureau documented the total number of people living in Philadelphia ...
Coordinates: 39.9557°N 75.2469°W. 1985 MOVE bombing. Part of Black Power movement and political violence in the United States during the Cold War. A crowd watching a row of buildings go up in flames in Philadelphia following the May 13, 1985 bombing. Location. 6221 Osage Ave, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Coordinates.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Alma mater. Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. John Dickinson High School. Occupation. Advocate. Michael S. Hinson Jr. (1966–2022) was an American Black and LGBTQ activist, educator, and researcher who lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was the chief executive officer of SELF, Inc. [ 1][ 2][ 3]
In 1883, after a police-protected mob attack on abolitionists and police beatings of Black voters, Philadelphia in 1924 studied its policing of Black people. The study determined that Black people ...
Revolutionary Action Movement (1962–68) Muhammad Ahmad (born Maxwell Curtis Stanford, Jr. on 31 July 1941), also known as Max Stanford, [a] is an American civil rights activist. He was a cofounder and the national chairman of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), a Marxist–Leninist, [1] black power [2] organisation active from 1962 to 1968.
In 1964, North Philadelphia was the city's center of African-American culture, and home to 400,000 of the city's 600,000 black residents. [2] The Philadelphia Police Department had tried to improve its relationship with the city's black community, assigning police to patrol black neighborhoods in teams of one black and one white officer per squad car and having a civilian review board to ...
The Colored Conventions Movement, or Black Conventions Movement, was a series of national, regional, and state conventions held irregularly during the decades preceding and following the American Civil War. The delegates who attended these conventions consisted of both free and formerly enslaved African Americans, including religious leaders ...