The Nation - News from Nov. 22, 1985

Hundreds of people gathered at night near the Philadelphia home of an interracial couple in a predominantly white neighborhood where an earlier demonstration caused officials to take action to prevent racial violence. Neighborhood leaders were upset about two black families living there who had called off a planned protest at the request of a task force formed to head off racial violence. Nevertheless, about 300 whites showed up outside the home of a black man and his white wife. Mounted police cordoned off 2 1/2 blocks on either side of the row house in the southwest Philadelphia neighborhood where they chanted and milled about. There were no arrests or violence. The only blacks present were police and reporters.