[WATCH] Activists Take Back the Street Named After The Black Mayor Who Bombed MOVE

Описание: On May 13, 1985, under the leadership of Philadelphia's first Black mayor, W. Wilson Goode Sr., police dropped a bomb on the home of the Black liberation and environmentalist group MOVE.
Eleven MOVE members, including five children, were killed. In the resulting fire that the mayor allowed to burn for hours, more than 60 homes in and around the 6200 block of Osage Avenue were destroyed.

In June 2018, City Council voted to name the street where Goode lives, the 2400 block of North 59th Street, after the former mayor and minister. In protest, local activists in the Serudj-Ta Alliance for Restorative Justice demanded that the Goode name be removed.

On October 9, 2018, as part of its continuing protests, the alliance erected a memorial shrine to the 11 people killed in the bombing that will forever haunt the City of Philadelphia.

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