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ABC = "Abraham, Barkus, Bowlegs, Bruner, Cudjo, Cudjoe" CLAN Family Geneology Due to a federal investigation, the Africans were at first left to fend for themselves. They quickly built shelters and started hunting game.
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Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis (ca. 1840 – 1935) is considered the last person born on African soil to have been enslaved in the US when slavery was legal in parts of it. He was captured with more than 100 other Africans and brought on the ship Clotilde to Mobile, Alabama in the United States in 1860 during an illegal slave-trading venture . When the slaves were divided among the investors in the deal, Kazo

ola (his African name) and 31 other enslaved Africans were taken to the property owned by Timothy Meaher, shipbuilder and owner of the Clotilde. While they could not legally be held as slaves, they were effectively controlled by Meaher as if they were. Five years later at the end of the American Civil War in 1865, slavery was abolished, and Lewis and his people were set free. Lewis did not return to Africa, although he and his tribespeople requested repatriation. He and the other Africans established a community at Magazine Point near Mobile, Alabama which became called Africatown. They maintained their language and tribal customs for years and he was very much a community leader even meeting with prominent people such as Booker T Washington. The neighborhood was also called Plateau and was eventually incorporated within Prichard, a suburb of Mobile. Cudjoe was the longest-lived survivor of all those who were brought aboard the Clotilde and died in 1934 aged 94. He was the last African American (via the transatlantic slave trade) who was born in Africa. Before he died, he gave several interviews on his experiences, including to the writer Zora Neale Hurston. During her interview in 1928, she also made a short film of Cudjoe, the only moving image that exists in the Western Hemisphere of an African transported through the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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May 13, 1985 - Philadelphia Police Department drop an explosive device from a helicopter onto a residential home occupied by the MOVE Organization following a standoff & firefight. The Philadelphia Fire Department let the subsequent fire burn out of control, destroying 61 homes over two city blocks.

MOVE was a black liberation group that encompassed philosophies of black nationalism, anarcho-primitivism & animal rights. The group was founded in 1972 by John Africa (Vincent Leaphart), a native of West Philly & veteran of the Korean War. Africa began a series of racial teachings that grew a following of people who believed in his ideology. He compiled his thoughts into a book called "The Guidelines", which became the primary source of his teachings & principles.

MOVE advocated a radical form of environmental politics, opposed science, medicine, & technology. They regularly held demonstrations against animal cruelty in front of zoos, puppy mills, & any institutional form of enslavement of animals, using bullhorns to propel their ideals. The members were often jailed for their actions.

In 1985, police obtained arrest warrants charging 4 MOVE occupants with parole violations, contempt of court, illegal possession of fi****ms & the City classified MOVE as a terrorist organization. Police evacuated residents of the area from the neighborhood prior to their action.
On May 13, 1985, nearly 500 police officers arrived in force and attempted to clear the building & execute the arrest warrants.
When the MOVE members did not respond to exit their home, the police decided to forcibly remove the 13 members. Police lobbed tear gas canisters at the building & MOVE members fired at them. A 90 min gunfight ensued. Police used more than 10,000 rnds of ammunition before Commissioner Sambor ordered that the compound be bombed. Two 1lb bombs made of FBI-supplied Tovex, a dynamite substitute, were dropped from a police helicopter, targeting a cubicle on the roof of the house. The ensuing fire killed 11 of the people in the house; John Africa, five other adults, & five children aged 7 to 13.
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