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Photos from the 1978 MOVE confrontation

    by Roslyn Rudolph
    Published 

The seven MOVE members with parole interviews scheduled in April are (top row, from left): Michael Davis Africa, Edward Goodman Africa, Janet Hollaway Africa, Delbert Orr Africa, (bottom row, from left) Jeanene Phillips Africa, William Phillips Africa, and Debbie Sims Africa. Charles Sims Africa probably will have an interview in November; his minimum date is February of next year.

Members of MOVE shout from the porch of their house in West Philadelphia in 1978. (William F. Steinmetz / Inquirer)

Philadelphia police set up barricades outside the MOVE house at 33d and Pearl Streets in Powelton Village in March 1978.

Delbert Aftica surrendering to Philadelphia police Aug. 8, 1978. (Jim G. Domke, Inquirer)