[dbehsman]

Excellent article! I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Do you have any sources about the "Cobb's Creek riots"? I tried looking it up on the net, but I couldn't find anything. It sounds interesting. I never heard of the incident with the black woman freezing to death. I'm usually interested in these obscure bits of history. I get a little sick and tired of some of my northern brethren sanctimoniously pontificating on the awful treatment visited upon blacks by southerners. The problems were all over, and this story illustrates it very well. What a shameful act in the "city of brotherly love"!

[Publius]

When the MOVE incident occurred in 1985, one of the Philadelphia newspapers had a sidebar article about the long history of that neighborhood as a black enclave, even in the 19th Century. That sidebar article mentioned the Cobbs Creek riots of 1839.