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Clark’s policy was to restrict American Bandstand to youth aged 14-17. An older sister’s birth certificate and piled-on makeup enabled some underage girls to get membership cards to Studio B.
Looking northeast on Woodland Avenue between 36th and 34th Streets in the late 1950s.
Crowds gather to watch the demolition of buildings along Woodland Avenue.
Malcolm X, Paul Robeson, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were each surveilled by the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. FBI harassment in Robeson’s and King’s cases. Hoover took special measures to tar King.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with Rev. Marshall Shepard Sr. (left) and Rev. Marshall Shepard Jr. (right), pastors at Mt. Olivet Tabernacle Baptist Church, 647 N. 42nd St., West Philadelphia. The senior Shepard was the church’s pastor for 42 years and City Councilman for 11 years.
Fidel Castro. Unauthorized by Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X’s meeting with Cuba’s revolutionary communist leader Fidel Castro, Harlem Sept. 1960, signaled Malcolm’s growing independence from the Messenger.
J. Edgar Hoover, who headed the FBI for 48 years, was the nemesis of all human rights activists in the United States. Hoover cast militant Blacks such as Malcolm X as dire threats to national security, and the FBI worked clandestinely through wiretaps and informants to undermine them.
Map showing the townships, districts, and boroughs scheduled for annexation by the City of Philadelphia in 1854.
Phases of the $100-million building program at the University of Pennsylvania are charted on an aerial photograph of the West Philadelphia area.
Robert D. Work’s English Gothic style house at 3803 Locust St., built by Samuel Sloan in 1851–52. Work moved here in 1865. By 1960, when this photo was taken, the house had become the home of the Kappa Alpha Society. Today, in a vastly upgraded and expanded form, the building is home to the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House.
This map published by the Philadelphia Housing Association in 1960 shows the geographical relationship of three areas that were studied by the Housing Association, a private watchdog organization led by Philadelphia activists for housing improvement. Haddington Leadership Area contained Haddington Homes.