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RAPHAEL McKINLEY Coel, a civil-rights leader who worked in many of the crusades for racial justice in the Philadelphia of the 1960s, died July 4. He was 85.
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MOST PEOPLE'S teenage years are a challenge, but in Mary Anne Bartley's case, getting through them was a matter of life and death.
POINT BREEZE was supposed to "die a natural death." That was the sentence imposed upon it in the late '70s by an official of the city's Office of Housing and Community Development.
LEONARD KILLEBREW was a minority contractor who fought to make sure he and other minority contractors got their fair slice of the city's construction pie.
Robert E. Lee Taylor Jr. was not your typical jail bird. It was 1963 when the iron doors slammed on Taylor, then president of the Philadelphia Bulletin, and his city editor, Earl Selby, because they refused to testify or let their reporters testify before a grand jury about the paper's sources for stories on corruption in Philadelphia city government.
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