First Day [a collection of 21 issues ca. May 1994 - January 2001]

anonymous [The MOVE Organization]

Published by MOVE / First Day Publishers 1994-2001, Philadelphia, 1994

About this Item

42x29 cm, [268] pp, TWENTY-ONE [21] ISSUES. This is a collection of 21 issues of the tabloid-format irregularly- published newspaper of the [Philadelphia] MOVE Organization. Includes 2 duplicates. Includes issues nr.3; 5 [2 copies]; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13;14; 15; 16 [2 copies]; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 23 [May 1994 -January 2001]. Each is caption- titled. All but two issues run 12 pages each [Issue nr. 11runs 32 pp; Issue nr. 18 runs 8pp]. Several bear small tears to page margins. Issue 23 has a stain to front page, otherwise all are in Very Good condition. TOGETHER WITH 3 leaflets ["Long Live John Africa!!!", "To All Interested People - from the MOVE Organization"; "Press Release: Who Are the MOVE 9?"] and a 27-page photocopy of articles from First Day issue nr. 4 . Contributors include MOVE Organization founder John Africa & Death Row- imprisoned Black revolutionary Mumia Abu-Jamal. Contents mainly concern the 9 MOVE members serving 30 to 100 year prison terms, the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the cases of other imprisoned American black revolutionaries. [The Philadelphia Afro-American revolutionary collective "The MOVE Organization" was founded in the late 1960s/ early 1970s by John Africa. As a result of the shooting death of a police officer during the August 8, 1978 raid on Move Organization headquarters, 9 leading members of MOVE were each sentenced to 30 to 100 year prison terms. On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia police launched a full-scale military assault on The MOVE Organization headquarters - including aerial bombardment- and killed eleven MOVE members, five of them children]. Each issue folded in half. Several bear margin small tears. VG.

Seller Inventory # 008241

Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Day [a collection of 21 issues ca. May 1994 - January 2001]
• Publisher: MOVE / First Day Publishers 1994-2001, Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1994
• Illustrator: Textual illustrations
• Seller catalogs:
  • African America