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Newspaper articles on hate crimes in Delaware County
Date: 1997-02-25
Articles by Cindy deProphetis about a spray painted hate message on the Briarcliff (Darby Township) home of an African American physician and police investigation; and about the reponse of the physician and neighbors.
Newspaper article about hate crime in Delaware County
Date: 1997-02-25
Front cover of the Daily Times with the headline: "Racial vandals greet new neighbors; Black doctor targeted by spray-painting hate-mongers."
Newspaper article about hate crime in Delaware County
Date: 1997-02-26
Online article by Bridget Eklund about a spray painted hate message on the Briarcliff (Darby Township) home of Dorothy Williams, a black woman, and her son, Arthur Williams, a physician in Philadelphia, and her visiting nephew, Miguel Osborn.
Newspaper article about hate crime in Delaware County
Date: 1997-02-26
Second page of online article by Bridget Eklund about a spray painted hate message on the Briarcliff (Darby Township) home of Dorothy Williams, a black woman, and her son, Arthur Williams, a physician in Philadelphia, and her visiting nephew, Miguel…
Newspaper article about hate crime in Delaware County
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1997-03-04
Article by Mary Jane Janco about the Citizens-Community Task Force's desire to create a town watch in response to racist and anti-Semitic literature and an attack.
Newspaper article about hate crime in Delaware County
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1997-03-18
Article by Marlene DiGiacomo about five men found guilty of the October 12, 1996 attack on a Media man.
Newspaper article about hate crime in Delaware County
Date: 1997-05-15
Article by John M. Roman about a cross burning in Nether Providence Township's Hepford Park. Michael Motley, President of the Media branch of the NAACP is quoted about Nether Providence not acting on becoming a zero tolerance for hate crimes…
Newspaper article about hate crime in Delaware County
Date: 1997-05-16
Article by Timothy Logue. Headline, "Teen Confesses to Cross Burning."
Newspaper article about hate crime in Delaware County
Date: 1997-05-19
Article by Susan L. Serbin about the Citizens-Community Task Force's response to the cross burning at Hepford Park in Nether Providence.
Unity Day Rally, 1997
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1997-05-27
Press release by Juanita Edwards on Media's first Unity Day Rally, sponsored by Citizens-Community Task Force.
Citation from State Senator Clarence D. Bell
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1997-06
Citation commending those who work for unity in Delaware County and Chester County.
Citizens-Community Task Force
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1997-06
1997 documentation of racist incidents and profiling in Media and surrounding areas, and information on Media's first Unity Day rally.
Pennsylvania Network of Unity Coalitions
Date: 1997-06
Pennsylvania Network of Unity Coalitions (PNUC) welcoming the Citizens-Community Task Force as a member. Letter signed by Robert Hillman, PNUC Board Chair.
Unity Day, Media, Pa., 1997
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1997-06-11
Headline, Media to Celebrate Unity Day Saturday; June 11, 1997 Town Talk article by Bob Bodine; Carolyn Glover, Juanita Edwards, And Mary Edwards review plans for Media's first Unity Day rally to be held at 10 a.m. Saturday June 14, 1997 in front of…
Unity Day Rally, 1997
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1997-06-13
Flyer for the first Unity Day Rally, sponsored by Citizens-Community Task Force.
Homer C. Floyd, speaker at Unity Day
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1997-06-14
Unity Day group photo. Homer Floyd, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, standing. Seated (left to right), Rev. Rideout, Mary Edwards, Hans Deitz, Robert Dee, Vice Chairman, African-American-Jewish Relations, ADL; and Thomas…
Homer C. Floyd, text of Unity Day speech
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1997-06-14
"Unity: A Question of Commitment" by Homer C. Floyd, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission. See text in Notes field
Unity Day Rally
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1997-06-15
Article by Susan Serbin in Delaware County Daily Times, about Media's 1997 Unity Day Rally
Newspaper article about race relations in Delaware County
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1997-07-02
Philadelphia Inquirer article by Mary Ann Janco. Headline, Media Group to ask Clinton to visit to talk about race. The Citizens-Community Task Force sent an invitation to President Clinton to talk about race in a town hall meeting. President Clinton…
Letter from President William J. Clinton to Citizens-Community Task Force
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1997-07-10
Page 1 of letter to Clinton inviting him to hold one of his Town Meetings on race relations in Media. Signed by Mary Edwards, Coordinator, Carolyn Glover, Recorder, and Juanita Edwards, Publicist.
Letter from President William J. Clinton to Citizens-Community Task Force
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1997-07-10
Page 2 of letter to Clinton inviting him to hold one of his Town Meetings on race relations in Media. Signed by Mary Edwards, Coordinator, Carolyn Glover, Recorder, and Juanita Edwards, Publicist.
Citizens-Community Task Force, flyer
Date: 1997-08
Sponsored by the Citizens-Community Task Force, clergy are invited to study circles at Pendle Hill to begin dialogue on hate in the community.
Newspaper article about race relations in Delaware County
Date: 1997-11-10
Philadelphia Daily News article by Mister Mann Frisby. Headline: Stalked by hatred in suburbs. The article is about racial slurs, Ku Klux Klan, and anti-Christ symbols splayed across Miguel Osborne's home.