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The MOVE Fire

This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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The Violence That Helped Spark the NAACP

In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.

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Saralee doll designed by Sara Lee Creech

Date
1951-1953
Manufactured by
Ideal Toy Corp. Inc., 1907 - 1997
Designed by
Sara Lee Creech, American, 1916 - 2008
Shelia Burlingame, American, 1894 - 1969
Maxeda Von Hesse, American, 1913 - 1987
Subject of
Zora Neale Hurston, American, 1891 - 1960
Loïs Mailou Jones, American, 1905 - 1998
Dr. Ralph Bunche, American, 1903 - 1971
Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, American, 1894 - 1984
Description
A Saralee doll designed by Sara Lee Creech, Maxeda Von Hesse, Sheila Burlingame, and manufactured by the Ideal Toy Corporation. The infant doll features a vinyl head, vinyl limbs, and the soft torso of the doll is constructed with brown cotton fabric and filled with padding. She is wearing a white organdy dress, bonnet, chemise, baby bloomers, shoes, and socks. She has sleeping eyes that are bright light brown when opened. She also has thick black lashes, thin brown eyebrows and pink lips and tongue. Her hair is represented by molded swirled curls painted a dark brown. The baby doll’s hands are open with the fingers splayed and slightly curled. Her slightly yellowed, white, empire waisted, organdy dress is gathered at the waist. The dress has puff short sleeves gathered at the arm holes, a small satin bow stitched to the center of the waist, and it is embellished across the chest, waist, and near the hem with white embroidered bands. The dress fastens at the back with two white pearl buttons. Underneath the dress is a plain, white, cotton chemise with cotton lace trim that also fastens at the back. The baby bloomers are plain white cotton with cotton lace trim around the pant leg hems, and a thin elastic waistband. The white rayon socks are plain and the Mary Jane-style, imitation leather shoes are also plain white with ties over the bridge of the foot and thick paper soles. The bonnet is white with lace trim. The bonnet visor is shaped with a fabric covered metal wire and has a satin tie at the front that ties under the doll's chin.
Place made
Queens, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Topic
African American
Children
Identity
Play
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Classification
Toys and Games
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Barbara Marshall-Bailey and her children; Bianca A, Jason Q, and Aliana Grace
Data Source
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Object number
2022.51
Type
toys (recreational artifacts)
dolls
Restrictions & Rights
Unknown - Restrictions Possible
Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
Medium
vinyl with cotton (textile) , metal , paper (fiber product) , imitation leather , rayon and satin
Dimensions
H x W x D: 18 7/16 × 14 5/16 × 3 13/16 in. (46.9 × 36.4 × 9.7 cm)
Title
Object Name • Saralee doll designed by Sara Lee Creech
Record ID
nmaahc_2022.51
Museum
NMAAHC
Title Sort
SARALEE DOLL DESIGNED BY SARA LEE CREECH
Source
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Metadata Usage
CC0
Date
1950s
Name
Jones, Loïs Mailou • Mays, Benjamin Elijah • Von Hesse, Maxeda • Burlingame, Shelia • Ideal Toy Corp. Inc. • Bunche, Ralph • Creech, Sara Lee • Hurston, Zora Neale
Place
New York City • Queens • United States • North and Central America
Topic
Play • Children • Group identity
Culture
African Americans
Geo Location
Locale • Queens • City • New York City • State • New York • Country • United States • Continent • North and Central America
Type
Toys (recreational artifacts) • Dolls
Online Media Type
Images
Online Media Rights
Unknown - Restrictions Possible

Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. Rights and restrictions shown above are supplied by the Smithsonian record.

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TOPIC OF THE DAY

Greenwood / Black Wall Street

Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.

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TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE DAY

Which Supreme Court case ruled state-sponsored public-school segregation unconstitutional?

Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.