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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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Wilmington 1898 — An American Coup

Wilmington, North Carolina once had a thriving Black middle class and an elected interracial government. In 1898 white supremacists used violence to overthrow that government, kill Black residents and drive many others from the city.

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Photograph album owned by Emily Howland

Date
1864
Manufactured by
James B. Smith & Co., American
Signed by
Caroline N. Lacy, American, 1838 - 1898
Received by
Emily Howland, American, 1827 - 1929
Subject of
Harriet Tubman, American, 1822 - 1913
John Willis Menard, American, 1838 - 1893
Charles Sumner, American, 1811 - 1874
Lydia Maria Child, American, 1802 - 1880
William Henry Channing, American, 1810 - 1884
Wendell Phillips, American, 1811 - 1884
Freedmen's Bureau, American, 1865 - 1872
Caption
Caroline “Carrie” Nichols (later Carrie N. Lacy; see 2017.30.13) presented this carte-de-visite album to her friend and fellow teacher Emily Howland on January 1, 1864, at Camp Todd, a freedmen’s camp and school located in Arlington, Virginia. Emily Howland was an abolitionist, educator, philanthropist, and suffragist who founded, financially supported, and taught in numerous schools for African Americans for more than 70 years from 1857 until her death in 1929 at the age of 101.
Typical of a CDV album during this period, the Howland Album contains photographs of Howland’s family, friends, and colleagues, as well as souvenir images of notable abolitionists and famous figures during the 1860s and 1870s. Based on the photograph dates and later inscriptions, it is clear that Howland added photographs to the album as she collected them throughout the mid- to late 19th century.
Description
Black leather photograph album owned by Emily Howland containing photographs of friends, family, and celebrities. The album covers and binding are made from embossed black leather with gold gilt decorations on the covers and spine. Both covers are the same, with a scallop-edged diamond outlined in gold at the center and geometric borders surrounding it, ending in a thin gold gilt geometric border around the edges. Gilt text is stamped on the spine reading "PHOTOGRAPHS". The front and back interior covers have decorative paper with small gold repeating stylized dots on a white ground adhered to them. There are four (4) sheets of paper at the front of the album, followed by twenty-five (25) thicker pages that each feature a window for holding two (2) photographs per page, and one (1) sheet of paper at the back of the album. There is room for fifty (50) photographs, though the album contains only forty-seven (47) photographs plus one (1) loose photograph too large to fit into the windowed pages. Windows 20, 21, and 47 are empty. The windows are rectangular with rounded corners and are surrounded by a gold printed border. The front pages include a page with information about the album publisher and an Index page with two printed columns of numbered lines for identifying the photographs. The Index page is not filled out. There is an inscription written in black ink on the first page that reads "To / Emily Howland / From her friend / Carrie Nichols / Jan 1st, 1864 / Camp Todd / Virginia". All of the interior pages are edged in gilt with a design impressed into the top, right side, and bottom edges of the pages that creates a floral spray when the album is closed. The album fastens on the right side with two (2) metal hinged bars that are attached to the back cover and close over metal pins attached to the front cover. The bars are embellished with a three-dimensional metal design imitating a floral fabric looped through a metal buckle.
Place used
Camp Todd, Arlington County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
Topic
African American
Antislavery
Education
Families
Feminism
Local and regional
Military
Photography
Politics
Reconstruction, U.S. History, 1865-1877
Religion
Social reform
U.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865
United States Colored Troops
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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
Collection title
Emily Howland Photograph Album
Classification
Slavery and Freedom Objects
Photographs and Still Images
Movement
Anti-slavery movements
Abolitionist movement
Credit Line
Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture shared with the Library of Congress
Data Source
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Object number
2017.30
Type
photograph albums
Restrictions & Rights
No Known Copyright Restrictions
Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
Medium
leather, metal, and ink on paper
Dimensions
H x W x D (closed): 6 1/4 × 5 1/4 × 2 7/8 in. (15.9 × 13.3 × 7.3 cm)
H x W (open with clasps): 6 1/4 × 11 in. (15.9 × 27.9 cm)
H x W (open without clasps): 6 1/4 × 9 in. (15.9 × 22.9 cm)
H x W x D (Storage container): 5 7/8 × 11 1/4 × 11 7/16 in. (15 × 28.5 × 29 cm)
Title
Object Name • Photograph album owned by Emily Howland
Record ID
nmaahc_2017.30
Museum
NMAAHC
Title Sort
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OWNED BY EMILY HOWLAND
Source
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Metadata Usage
CC0
Date
1860s
Name
Lacy, Caroline N. • Howland, Emily • Child, Lydia Maria • Freedmen's Bureau • Phillips, Wendell • James B. Smith & Co. • Tubman, Harriet • Menard, John Willis • Sumner, Charles • Channing, William Henry
Place
Camp Todd • Arlington County • United States • North and Central America • Virginia
Topic
Social reform • U.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865 • Religion • Photography • Feminism • Abolitionist movement • Education • Anti-slavery movements • Family • Politics • Reconstruction, U.S. History, 1865-1877 • Antislavery • Military • United States Colored Troops
Culture
African Americans
Geo Location
Locale • Camp Todd • County • Arlington County • State • Virginia • Country • United States • Continent • North and Central America
Type
Photographs
Online Media Type
Images
Online Media Rights
No Known Copyright Restrictions

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