The Nation - News from Nov. 24, 1985
A black civil rights group canceled a march through a racially troubled Philadelphia neighborhood at the request of Mayor W. Wilson Goode, who called the area “a time bomb.” Goode had declared a state of emergency after two days of demonstrations against the arrival of a black family and an interracial couple in the all-white area. Operation PUSH, a civil rights organization founded by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, had planned a march and motorcade in support of the blacks.
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