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Topic: Vincent Leaphart


In the News (Tue 21 May 13)

  
  MOVE
is an organisation formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972 by John Africa (Vincet Leaphart) and Donald Glassey.
Leaphart and eight other MOVE members were sentenced to prison for the murder.
In the aftermath of the catastrophe the city launched a special investigation which found, among other things, that "Dropping a bomb on an occupied row house was unconscionable." Philadelphia has paid $26.5 million to the victims after various lawsuits.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mo/MOVE.html   (572 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Leaphart initially sued the same defendants as Ramona Africa as well as certain others, but his suit was dismissed as to some of the defendants prior to entry of the orders now on appeal.
Leaphart alleges that they violated his decedent's rights under the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments, in violation of 42 U.S.C. ยงยง 1983 and 1985(3).[fn4] He seeks compensatory and punitive damages as well as declaratory relief.
First, I ask whether plaintiff Africa and decedents Leaphart and James possessed a "clearly established" constitutional right to be free from the forces allegedly exerted by the individual defendants under the circumstances that existed on May 13, 1985.
vls.law.vill.edu /locator/3d/Mar1995/95a0986p.txt   (18123 words)

  
 Powelton Village - Philadelphia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The late Vincent Leaphart, the handyman, moved into the Powelton Village apartment of Donald Glassey, the former college teacher, in January 1972, and they began writing an 800-page "Book of Principles," which outlined Leaphart's beliefs.
Before the end of 1972, Leaphart was calling himself John Africa and had recruited several members for his group, which first was called the Christian Movement for Life, then Community Action Movement and, finally, MOVE.
Although Black Panthers, drug addicts and college dropouts became members, the core was the Leaphart family: Vincent and his two sisters, Louise James and Laverne Sims, and their six children.
www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/langlab/powelton/profiles/move_2.html   (292 words)

  
 Powelton Village - Philadelphia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The little group was founded in 1972 by handyman Vincent Leaphart, a fl third-grade dropout, and Donald Glassey, a white college teacher with a master's degree in social work.
Leaphart, who did odd jobs in Powelton Village in the early 1970s, apparently captivated Glassey, who was living in a commune there, with preachings about the dangers of modern technology.
Under the guidance of Leaphart, who had changed his name to John Africa, the group fortified its house, stockpiled weapons and became increasingly militant, authorities say.
www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/langlab/powelton/profiles/move_1.html   (767 words)

  
 Religious Movements Homepage: MOVE
Background Information: Vincent Leaphart, who later changed his name to John Africa, established the group MOVE during a period of political strife in Philadelphia.
He was fascinated by Leaphart, who he described as "the first man [he] had met who was living in complete harmony with what he believed in" (Assefa, 10).
When Leaphart was evicted from his own apartment because of his refusal to exterminate roaches which he felt "were the same as people," Glassey gladly allowed his friend and mentor to move into his own Victorian mansion (Anderson, 4).
religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/Move.html   (3269 words)

  
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Leaphart was the name he was born into.
Vincent Lee Phart was, of course, Vincent Leaphart, a.k.a., John Africa, federal
Indeed, both refused to confirm that Vincent Leaphart was John Africa.
themoveorganization.com /johnafrica.html   (7919 words)

  
 MOVE - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
MOVE is an organization formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972 by John Africa (Vincent Leaphart) and Donald Glassey.
It was described by CNN as: A loose-knit, mostly fl group whose members all adopted the surname Africa, advocated a "back-to-nature" lifestyle and preached against technology.
The MOVE group then moved to a house in west Philadelphia owned by Louise James, a relative of a MOVE member.
88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/MOVE   (806 words)

  
 AROUND THE NATION; Jury Acquits 2 Members Of Philadelphia Cult - New York Times
Vincent Leaphart, also known as John Africa, and Alphonso Robbins were acquitted after nearly six days of deliberations on charges of making bombs and conspiring to use them in a terrorist campaign.
Leaphart, reputedly the group's founder, developed a plan to arm members and to plant fake bombs and letters containing bomb threats in cities around the country.
Move was formed in the early 1970's by John Africa, whose adopted surname was taken by other members.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E7DB163BF930A15754C0A967948260   (154 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "John Africa": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Leaphart became John Africa), MOVE members quickly went from items of curiosity to curious threats to the status quo.
Vincent Leaphart, who later changed his name to John Africa, established the group MOVE during a period of political strife in Philadelphia.
Leaphart (now calling himself John Africa; all MOVE members took the last name of Africa) wrote a tract that laid out his beliefs, called The...
www.amazon.com /phrase/John-Africa   (512 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/MOVE
In all, police seized 11 rifles and handguns from the compound and 2,000 rounds of ammunition.
Leaphart and eight other MOVE members, known as the MOVE 9, were sentenced to prison for the murder.
Following this incident, Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo had the house demolished as it was deemed uninhabitable due to health code violations.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/MOVE   (1337 words)

  
 Denver Post Online: Books and Authors
More important are Mallory's nostalgic memories of John Africa, the leader of Move, the radical group whose members were killed by the Philadelphia police in a well-publicized episode of official brutality in 1985.
John Africa, whose real name was Vincent Leaphart, is seen by Mallory - and, it would seem, by Wideman as well - as a kind of departed saint whose death at the hands of the authorities was a kind of martyrdom.
Wideman's evocation of John Africa is razor sharp, but it is also where this novel takes on the feel of propaganda.
extras.denverpost.com /books/book444.htm   (838 words)

  
 MOVE is an organisation formed in Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania...
MOVE is an organisation formed in Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania...
"MOVE!" is an organisation formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972 1972 by John Africa (Vincent Leaphart) and Donald Glassey.
It was described by CNN CNN as: :"A loose-knit, mostly fl group whose members all adopted the surname Africa, advocated a "back-to-nature" lifestyle and preached against technology." Glassey owned a house in the Powelton Village neighborhood of Philadelphia, and his house became the first home base for MOVE.
www.biodatabase.de /MOVE   (659 words)

  
 America 1980-1989: Law and Justice History: Philadelphia and the Move Bombing | American Decades
Founded in the early 1970s, the MOVE organization was the brainchild of an idealistic social worker named Donald Glassey and a man named Vincent Leaphart.
The name of the organization actually stood for nothing, and Leaphart and his followers espoused a back-to-nature retreat from the technology that they believed was ruining civilization.
MOVE members were not known for much prior to 1977.
www.bookrags.com /history/america-1980s-law-and-justice/sub15.html   (484 words)

  
 free move Description of move. Actual articles about move and more.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
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In a number of cases, members assumed the last name of Africa.
Vincent Leaphart, who founded the group, became known as John Vincent Africa, and associate Donald Glassey emerged as Donald Glassey Africa, with others altering their names similarly.
Not only did the name offer the participants a solid connection with their roots, since most of the members were of African-American descent (Saline, 1985), but it also suggested an identity with a continent still considered rustic and simple in some regions, not spoiled by commerce.
www.esu.edu /scap_ANNUAL/ARTICLE4.96A.html   (3807 words)

  
 Philadelphia Police Barricade Group's House AP 13may85   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Neighbors say the group keeps stray cats, dogs and rats in the house, and that members have carried guns, attacked and robbed residents, run across rowhouse roofs and used bullhorns to shout obscenities at night.
The group espouses the anti-establishment, anti-technology philosophy of its founder, Vincent Leaphart, who later took the name John Africa, the surname used by all the group members.
In 1981, an estimated 10 children and five adults moved into MOVE's current headquarters.
www.mindfully.org /Reform/MOVE-Police-Barricade13may85.htm   (356 words)

  
 ronaldinho soccer move Description of move. Actual articles about move and more.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
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 MOVE Trial Approaches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
MOVE is not an > acronym, and its meaning and origins are unclear.
The other plaintiffs are: > > [ * ] The brothers and sisters of MOVE founder Leaphart, who was 53 > when he died.
He was not among those named in the arrest warrants > police tried to serve that day.
www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/1996-June/000431.html   (2188 words)

  
 c-level | endgames proposal
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In the early 1970's the founder of MOVE, Vincent Leaphart, changed his name to John Africa, and formed the "The Christian Movement for Life, (later shortened to MOVE).
MOVE attracted numerous followers during this period, mainly individuals from urban areas frustrated with war, drugs, racial discrimination and poverty.
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 AR.net >> Discussion Forum >> Activists Show True Colors by Hosting Ramona Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
GARC, not surprisingly, doesn't want people to know just how nutty MOVE and Ramona Africa are.
MOVE was founded in 1972 by John Africa (Vincent Leaphart) as a primitivist back-to-nature movement.
In their Philadelphia headquarters, they lived without heat, running water or electricity on principle.
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 The Bombing of MOVE - State Terrorism in the USA
The bombing of MOVE in 1985: Urban warfare in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia during 1985, 11 people were killed by the US police, when a bomb was dropped on the house containing members of MOVE, including five children, and it's founding member, John Africa (whose former name was Vincent Leaphart).
The picture above shows Ramona Africa, the only adult member to survive this brutal attack on civilians.
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 TIME.com: "It Looks Just Like a War Zone" -- May 27, 1985 -- Page 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
For more than a year the mostly fl middle-class neighborhood residents had been pressing the city to act against Move.
Founded in 1972 by a former handyman who changed his name from Vincent Leaphart to John Africa and gave his surname to all his followers, Move professes to be a back-to-nature movement but has always struck outsiders as an exotic cult enamored of rancid, anarchic practices.
Move has pretended to reject modern technology, but has embraced it readily enough in the form of weapons.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,956982-3,00.html   (766 words)

  
 Stillman Cases Outlines
Founded in the 1970s, in Philadelphia by Vincent Leaphart.
Leaphart changed his name to John Africa and all of his followers too on the surname “Africa”.
In 1970 a group known as MOVE, lead by Vincent Leaphart (later know as John Africa) began as a protest organization.
ww1.huntingdon.edu /jlewis/Syl/PA/306StillmanCasesStudOuts.htm   (7993 words)

  
 MOVE, 2002: Modern home, original beliefs
They advocate a natural lifestyle, focused on healthful food and free of intervention from authorities.
An abbreviated history lesson: In the early 1970s, a charismatic Mantua handyman, Vincent Leaphart, started living with some of his followers in Powelton Village.
In 1977, complaints from neighbors about rats and odors led Philadelphia police to lay siege to the house in Powelton Village.
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 DennyHatch.com • COLDCOCKED Chapters 1-4
An episode even more damaging to Philadelphia’s reputation did, in fact, incinerate an entire neighborhood.
The incident had its beginnings in 1972 when an African-American former handyman named Vincent Leaphart founded MOVE, a back-to-nature cult in a block of houses on Osage Avenue in a blue-collar West Philadelphia neighborhood.
Over the years, the entire property became littered with garbage and feces.
www.dennyhatch.com /coldcocked/chapters6.html   (1292 words)

  
 The governator’s hit list
Geronimo’s conviction was overturned in 1997, and he was finally released from prison.
John Africa, born Vincent Leaphart, co-founded the radical, mainly Black organization MOVE in Philadelphia in 1972.
The group immediately faced harassment from police and city officials.
www.socialistworker.org /2006-1/571/571_06_HitList.shtml   (3160 words)

  
 Het Zaanweb :: John Edgar Wideman: Chapter 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia municipal police bombed the MOVE-headquarters and thereby wiped out an entire block of 53 homes.
MOVE was formed in 1970, under the leadership of Vincent Leaphart, who later took on the name John Africa.
Congregating in a West Philadelphia row-house, MOVE members led a community life based on naturalist, vegetarian and occasionally nudist principles.
www.zaan.be /lib/teksten/wideman/chap4.php   (8254 words)

  
 Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal - Chapter 1
At first they called themselves the American Christian Movement for Life, but they later shortened the name to MOVE.
Following the example of Leaphart, who now referred to himself as John Africa, all the core members adopted the surname Africa, in honor of the continent where they believed life began.”
In 1977, after he was charged with filing false information in connection with a firearm purchase, Glassey agreed to become an informer for the Philadelphia police.
www.bolshevik.org /Pamphlets/CaseOfMumia/Mumia_Text_1.htm   (2751 words)

  
 Big List
This religion embraces visions of world peace and an end to atomic war material.
This group was formed by Vincent Leaphart aka John Africa in Philadelphia.
This group views the governments as evil an corrupt system, they saw equality with animals and insects and saw technology as evil.
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 Move
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