Ten of us met on October 3 rd to discuss On a Move: Philadelphia’s Notorious Bombing and a Native Son’s Life long Battle for Justice by Mike Africa Jr. w ith D. Watkins. MOVE was founded in 1972 by Vincent Lopez Leapheart, known to his family as Benny , and later taking the name John Africa. John Africa taught that all of life is sacred: human lives, animal lives, the environment, even water. H e promoted a back to nature lifestyle and advocated aggressively fighting “The System,” through constant protests and disruptions. Mike Africa Jr. Was born and raised in the MOVE Organization . He was born in a jail cell and his biological parents both spent almost all his life in prison. The MOVE lifestyle was to raise the children communally so he was extremely close to the five children and six adult MOVE members who were killed May 13, 1985, when the City of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on the residential neighborhood that housed MOVE. Mike Africa Jr. (Fac...
Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series
The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series meets approximately once every six weeks at the Courtland S. Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library in New Haven, CT.