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Woodrow Wilson Goode Sr. (born August 19, 1938) is a former Mayor of Philadelphia and the first African American to hold that office. He served from 1984 to 1992, a period which included the controversial MOVE police action and house bombing in 1985 .
Sep 7, 2002 · The Honorable Reverend Dr. W. Wilson Goode, Sr. The son of sharecroppers, W. Wilson Goode rose from a life of abject poverty to become the first black mayor of Philadelphia. Born near Seaboard, North Carolina, in 1938, Goode's family migrated north following the war to Philadelphia.
May 11, 2020 · Goode, the city’s first black mayor, led Philadelphia in 1985 when the city clashed with members of MOVE, a radical, black back-to-nature group. It culminated in the May 13 bombing of MOVE ...
May 10, 2020 · Former Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode Sr. is calling on the city to issue a “formal apology” 35 years after the MOVE bombing that killed 11 people.
Apr 8, 2007 · Best known as the first African American Mayor of Philadelphia, Woodrow Wilson Goode was born in 1938 into a family of tenant farmers near the town of Seaboard, North Carolina. Goode moved to Philadelphia with his family in 1954. In 1961, he received a B.A. from Morgan State University in Maryland. He then attended the University of ...
Aug 23, 2014 · Reverend Dr. W Wilson Goode, Sr., was just a kid in rural North Carolina when a homeless white man showed up at his front door asking for food.
Sep 21, 2018 · PHILADELPHIA – Former Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode Sr., who led the city in 1985 when police dropped a bomb on a rowhouse and caused an inferno that killed 11 people and destroyed more ...
Goode chronicles his personal and political experiences — and includes his own account of the Philadelphia police department ’ s role in the controversial MOVE tragedy — in his 1992 autobiography In Goode Faith.
…elected its first Black mayor, W. Wilson Goode, whose first administration was marred by the 1985 MOVE tragedy (a stand-off between a radical group and police that led to the bombing of the MOVE compound, the burning of the surrounding neighborhood, and the death of 11 people, including 5 children).…
Nov 11, 2016 · The Rev. Dr. Wilson Goode is a prominent African-American civic leader and was Philadelphia’s first African-American mayor.
