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Germantown Citizens Plan Protest Meeting Because of Police Brutality

Newspaper article discussing plans for a protest meeting after police brutality.

Tags: journalism, Newspaper, Philadelphia Tribune, Police, protest, Social Injustice

Negroes Plan Action to Halt Removal of Police of Their Race

A meeting is to be held to discuss the suspected plans of the South Street Business Men's Association to remove African American's from the police force.

Tags: 11th Street, 17th and Bainbridge Street, A.M.E. Church, Allen A. M. E. Church, Andrew F. Stevens, Bishop L. J. Coppin, Black businesses, Boycott, Department of Public Safety, G. Grant Williams, Harry Levy, Pamphlet, Philadelphia, Police, South Street Business Men's Association

Suspect 'Inside Jobs' on $5,000 'Racket' Holdups

Newspaper report of two armed robberies, one in Philadelphia and one in Camden. "West Indian Johnny" is thought to be connected with the potentially related stickups.

Vice Investigations, 1921

In 1921, Mayor J. Hampton Moore hired private vice investigators to observe and report on criminal activity in the Seventh ward.

Tags: J. Hampton Moore, Philadelphia (Pa.), Police, Seventh ward, vice investigations

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