Apartheid. USA 1988

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May 6, 1987:

May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department simply bombed from a police helicopter a row of 61 houses along Osage Avenue and Pine Street in a confrontation with a radical organisation called ‘Move’. The area was completely destroyed and looked like the result of a World War II bombing. Mayor W Wilson Goode vowed to the 236 residents who lost their homes to rebuild the blocks, a process that began a day after the disaster. In addition to the replacement houses, each family got 18 000 to 20 000 dollars in charitable contributions. Nearly half the households also reached out-of-court settlements with the City averaging a payment of just under 50 000 dollars.^94.

94. The New York Times, from a report by Patricia Leigh Brown