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African American Massacres in the U.S.A.

This guide provides information and links to websites that detail the many racially inspired slaughters of African Americans in the United States of America by those considered white Americans.

Database Articles

Sanders, Kimberly, and Judson Jeffries. “Framing MOVE: A Press’ Complicity in the Murder of Women and Children in the City of (Un) Brotherly Love.” Journal of African American Studies, vol. 17, no. 4, Dec. 2013, pp. 566–586. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s12111-013-9252-7.

Quinn, Jim. “Move V. the City of Philadelphia. (Cover Story).” Nation, vol. 242, no. 12, Mar. 1986, pp. 441–458. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=a9h&AN=12358547&site=ehost-live.

Nagel, Jack H. “Psychological Obstacles to Administrative Responsibility: Lessons of the MOVE Disaster.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 10, no. 1, 1991, pp. 1–23. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3325510. Accessed 13 July 2020.

Persons, Georgia A. “The Philadelphia Move Incident as an Anomaly in Models of Mayoral Leadership.” Phylon (1960-), vol. 48, no. 4, 1987, pp. 249–260. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/274482. Accessed 13 July 2020.