The Nation - News from Feb. 16, 1986

Some 3,500 people from as far away as Chicago, Florida and Vermont rallied in front of Philadelphia City Hall and marched through downtown in a protest “to stamp out” racial violence from “Cleveland to South Africa.” The National Mobilization Against Racism organized the march as a response to racial protests last November in which several hundred whites gathered outside the homes of two families in a southwest neighborhood, chanting “Beat it” and “Get out.”