The Nation - News from Jan. 26, 1986
About 200 demonstrators, some toting baseball bats, marched through Philadelphia in freezing rain to protest recent racial violence in the city and to warn they would meet future incidents with equal force. “Racists are going to be scared of us,” said Robert Anderson of Boston, one of several speakers who addressed the racially mixed group. “We don’t believe in nonviolence or pacifism. We don’t believe that’s the way to solve problems.” Much of the rhetoric was directed at Mayor W. Wilson Goode for his actions in the May 13 MOVE disaster.
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