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Title: 25 Years on the Move
Description: n.p. [Philadelphia], n.p.[MOVE/First Day...], March 1997. 2nd Printing, orig. wrappers. 72 pp,, 21x14cm, "A revised, updated & expanded edition of the 1991 publication '20 Years on the Move' ".. Textual photo illustrations. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ A history of the Philadelphia Afro-American revolutionary political collective "The MOVE Organization", founded by John Africa in the late 1960s/early 197 0s. As the result of a shooting death of a police officer during the August 8, 1978 raid on the MOVE Organization headquarters, 9 leading members of the MOVE Organization were sentenced to 30 to 100 year prison terms. On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia police launched a full- scale military assault on the MOVE Organization headquarters - including aerial bombardment - and killed eleven MOVE Organization members, five of them children.

Keywords: African America, United States Black, Afro-American, Minority Minorities, Radicalism Movement, MOVE Organization, Race Relations, Radical Radicals, Political History, Revolutionary

Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS008240I