The Nation - News from Feb. 7, 1986
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A federal grand jury indicted three men on civil rights charges in a fire that damaged a home that had been occupied by a black family in a predominantly white Philadelphia neighborhood. The Dec. 12 fire damaged a home that Charles Williams and Marietta Bloxom and their daughter had left two weeks earlier after hundreds of whites gathered outside shouting, “Move! Move! Move!” The blaze destroyed most of the family’s possessions.
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