...Amy E. Menzer Copyright © 1999 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1999 Exhibiting Philadelphia’s ”Vital Center”: Negotiating Environmental and Civic Reform in a Popular Postwar Planning Vision Amy E. Menzer...

...Laura McTighe Abstract The radical HIV prison activist movement has always been, in practice, an abolitionist movement. Set in Philadelphia in the early 2000s, this article centers the relationships through which leaders of ACT UP Philadelphia, the Philadelphia County Coalition for Prison Health...

... or Philadelphia viewed the struggle as an opportunity to emphasize the validity of revolutionary and republican principles across the New World. In stressing the relevance of the geopolitical context and of transnational interactions to the development of contradicting imperial and anticolonial views, the article...

... with examples, such as the labor organizing work behind a radio show launched by Philadelphia cab drivers and the communications policy work of the national Campaign for Prison Phone Justice, the interviewees argue that media policy must meet the needs of communities — and control of the communication...

...Johanna Gosse In November 2008, a symposium titled “On the Limits and Possibilities of Politics in Art” was held at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia. The event was organized in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition for the American painter Peter Saul, who was one...

... Historic Prison For answers, I looked to a historic site that is ready-­made for the challenge. Eastern State Penitentiary ranks among the most popular history attractions in my home city of Philadelphia and, after Alcatraz, is probably the most visited prison in the country. Designed by John...

... and one postal inspector in the well-to-do Main Line suburb of Radnor descended on one of the first meetings held in the Philadelphia area to discuss forming a local "homophile" political organization.' In what one newspaper called "the biggest raid of its kind in township history," eighty four...

... and disfranchised. In 1789, Benjamin Rush, chief physi- cian at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital and signer of the Decl- aration of Independence, added two new forms of "lunacy" to his medical notebooks: "Anarchiathe masses' excess of the passion for liberty, inflamed by the successful issue of the war...

... SPRING/~UMMER1979 PAGES89-96 90 RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW the work in question, it can save much time in tracing the location of obscure works. Unpublished, regional union catalogs are also available in some areas, for instance in Philadelphia. Depending on voluntarily...

..., whose father, a Philadelphia optometrist, had been unable to study medicine in the 1930s due to the Jewish quotas of the city’s medical schools. In the fall of 1967, Kron was living at home being “catered to hand and foot” by parents “absolutely delighted...

... on the field.11 Morgan was also born in 1935 and raised in a northern city, Philadelphia, yet her experience in organized sports differed markedly from Johnson’s. Some citywide teams were certainly all white and male, but Philadelphia also had a long tradition of organized sport leagues for black...

... Weekend ex- travaganza, Wolper took "We the People 200," Philadelphia's official Bicentennial planning body, to task. He predicted that the 200th an- niversary of the document's signing would be a flop, and that on 17 September the city itself would probably garner onIy a few minutes...

... of SftP protest activities. One source the students read before class was a January 21, 1972, “letterhead memorandum” the FBI produced for distribution to other law enforce- ment agencies. The eight-­page memo, based on both informant testimony and a Philadelphia FBI agent’s on-­site surveillance...

... merchant who hailed from one of the most prominent and wealthy families in Pennsylvania. He and his two brothers, James and Israel, were such fixtures in Philadelphia society that a frustrated John Adams once declared that the city was teeming with “damnable Pembertons.”18 On the other side...

.... At least four major themes dominate recent works, all notably absent from Ware’s presentation. 1. The Unevenness of Industrial Development In their respective monographs on antebellum Philadelphia and Newark, New Jersey, Bruce Laurie and Susan Hirsch first made unevenness...

... International’s Program to Abolish the Death Penalty at the “Freedom for Mumia!” national conference, Washington, D.C., March 30, 2001 In 1981, Philadelphia magazine named Mumia Abu-Jamal one of Philadelphia’s “people to watch.” He was president...

...Barbara Clark Smith Copyright © September 1988 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1988 "Set your mood to patriotic," Brent Musberger urged Americans who tuned in CBS's coverage of the Philadelphia celebration of the U.S. Constitution Bicentennial. This issue...

... in Delaware; Henry and Anne Sanders, slave- owning planters in Virginia; the family of Tory merchant Samuel Colton of Longmeadow, Massachusetts; African-Americans in the Chesapeake; the Seneca Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy and Philadelphia. The presentation works best for the families. We see...

... Books . Welch Michael Washington Linn . 2016 . “Bombing Black People: The Philadelphia Police's War on Move.” On a Move , January 31 . onamove.com/bombing-black-people-the-philadelphia-polices-war-on-move . Winner Langdon . 1980 . “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” Daedalus...

... of the Ameri- can Friends Service Committee is producing and disseminating Resis- tance in Paradise, modeled on the successful curriculum, Rethinking Columbus, in 1992.” (quoted from ”Summary,” National Community Relations Division, Asia Pacific Program, National Office, Philadelphia, 1998...