Policing & state violence
Columbia Avenue
28 - 30 August 1964Columbia Avenue, now Cecil B. Moore Avenue, North Philadelphia, PA
A police stop at 22nd and Columbia on a Friday night in August 1964, and a false rumour that officers had beaten a pregnant Black woman to death, set off three days that North Philadelphia's main Black commercial street never recovered from.
- People killed
- 2
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