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MOVE Crisis in Philadelphia Extremist Groups and Conflict Resolution

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ISBN-10: 0822954303

ISBN-13: 9780822954309

Edition: 1990 (Reprint)

Authors: Hizkias Assefa, Paul Wahrhaftig

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In 1985, police bombed the Philadelphia community occupied by members of the black counterculture group MOVE (short for ldquo;The Movementrdquo;).nbsp; What began fifteen years earlier as a neighborhood squabble provoked by conflicting lifestyles ended in the destruction of sixty-one homes and the death of eleven residents - five of them children.nbsp; Some 250 people were left homeless. Was this tragedy the only solution to the conflict?nbsp; Were John Africa and his morally and ecologically idealistic followers ldquo;too crazyrdquo; to negotiate with?nbsp; The authors interviewed MOVE members and their neighbors, third-party intervenors, and representatives of the Philadelpia…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 2/20/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English