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Philadelphia's African American mayor, Wilson Goode, orders the bombing of MOVE, a local black nationalist organization.
Associated Press

1985

Philadelphia's African American mayor, Wilson Goode, orders the bombing of MOVE, a local black nationalist organization.

After tensions rose between Black liberation group MOVE and the Philadelphia Police department, the city authorized the dispatch of a satchel bomb (often used in combat) on the home of the organization resulting in the deaths of its founder, John Africa, more than a dozen members and children, the destruction of 61 homes and 250 citizens left without shelter.

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