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Box 1

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Contains 4 Results:

Box 1

 other level — Box: 1
Identifier: Box 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: On May 13, 1985, an ongoing conflict between the MOVE organization and the Philadelphia city government and police climaxed in an incident that claimed the lives of eleven MOVE members, destroyed sixty one homes and left 250 people homeless.� The photographs in the file chronicle the extent of the destruction resulting from the tactics employed against the MOVE organization by the city of Philadelphia.MOVE is a loose-knit, mostly black group whose members all adopted the surname...
Dates: 1985

Photographs, May 13, 1985

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1
Scope and Contents

Black and white images of row homes after fire. Also contact sheets of various images.

Dates: May 13, 1985

Negatives, May 1985

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: Folder 2
Scope and Contents

Color negatives of removal of debris after fire.

Dates: May 1985

Summary of Event

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
Scope and Contents

Typed summary of MOVE Crisis. Also a print out of a 1996 news article from cnn.com about the verdict.

Dates: 1985