Wilson Goode

Charles S. Stone Jr., Journalist And Professor, Dies At 89

Source

Washington Post

Writing for the feisty mainstream tabloid at a time of simmering racial tensions, he spoke his mind in about 4,000 columns, taking on such powerful authority figures as mayors Frank Rizzo and Wilson Goode.

He Was Six When Police Bombed Move – Now He’s Making The Site A Memorial

Date

May 12, 2023

Category

U.S.

Source

The Guardian US

remaining Move members who had not been arrested following the siege began to reconvene in Osage Avenue. Conflict with Philadelphia police quickly began anew, and by the start of 1985, city chiefs, including the citys first Black mayor, Wilson Goode, were looking to forcibly evict the group once again.

I'm From Philly. 30 Years Later, I'm Still Trying To Make Sense Of The Move ...

Category

U.S.

Source

GPB

It was chaos, and it went on like that all day gunshots and explosions and well-tended homes nearby being shot up and blown apart. In the afternoon, Mayor Wilson Goode held a press conference and told reporters that he wanted to "seize control of the house . . . by any means possible."

Then the ad urged viewers to vote for Goode's challenger in the race, Frank Rizzo. I was only six years old, but I'd heard of Wilson Goode he was the city's first black mayor, and he was on the TV all the time, besides. I'd never heard of this Frank Rizzo, but I knew he wasn't a bomber.