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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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Katherine Johnson — Mathematics to the Moon

Katherine Johnson’s mathematical calculations helped guide some of America’s most important early space missions while she confronted the racial and gender barriers faced by Black women in twentieth-century America.

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Pepsi ad in Ebony magazine, "Refreshes without filling... Have a Pepsi"

Date
March 1957
Published by
Johnson Publishing Company, American, 1942 - 2019
Subject of
PepsiCo Inc., American, founded 1898
Description
A Pepsi-Cola color advertisement in Ebony magazine with a young, middle-class couple: “Refreshes without filling… Have a Pepsi.”
A full-page, color advertisement for Pepsi-Cola from an issue of Ebony magazine. The advertisement features a photograph of a young couple, a man and a woman, each holding a bottle of Pepsi and examining prepared food on a serving trolley. The man wears a tie and striped grey sports coat and grey trousers. He is looking down as the woman lifts the lid off a small chafing dish. He holds the Pepsi in his proper right hand and his left is around the woman's waist. She stands on the other side of the trolley, wearing a white eyelet blouse, red pants, and sandals. A Pepsi is held at her side in her proper left hand and her proper right hand holds the dish lid. The bottom tier of the trolley holds a prepared lettuce salad with tomatoes, a stack of bowls, and set of a salt and pepper mills. To the left, large text reads [Refresh / without / filling / Have a Pepsi] followed by a short paragraph of text about the trend for "lighter, less-filling food and drink." An illustration of a bottle cap with the Pepsi logo is set into a small yellow square beneath the text.
The back of the page is a full-page, color advertisement for a 1957 Chevy Bel Air that features a tourist family with their Chevrolet parked next to a totem pole.
Place printed
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
Topic
African American
Advertising
Black Press
Business
Cooking and dining
Health
Mass media
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Classification
Memorabilia and Ephemera - Advertisements
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Stephanie Capparell, author of The Real Pepsi Challenge
Data Source
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Object number
2011.35.2.72
Type
advertisements
Restrictions & Rights
Unknown – Restrictions Possible
Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
Medium
ink on paper (fiber product)
Dimensions
H x W: 13 1/4 x 10 1/8 in. (33.7 x 25.7 cm)
Title
Object Name • Pepsi ad in Ebony magazine, "Refreshes without filling... Have a Pepsi"
Record ID
nmaahc_2011.35.2.72
Museum
NMAAHC
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PEPSI AD IN EBONY MAGAZINE, "REFRESHES WITHOUT FILLING... HAVE A PEPSI"
Source
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Metadata Usage
CC0
Date
1950s
Name
Johnson Publishing Company • PepsiCo Inc.
Place
Chicago • United States • Illinois • North and Central America • Cook County
Topic
Cooking • Black Press • Health • Dinners and dining • Mass media • Advertising • Business
Culture
African Americans
Geo Location
City • Chicago • County • Cook County • State • Illinois • Country • United States • Continent • North and Central America
Type
Advertisements
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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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.