Ivy League colleges urged to apologise for using bones of Black children in teaching Ed Pilkington
Two Ivy League institutions, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton, are facing mounting demands to apologise and make restitution for their handling over decades of the bones of African American children killed by Philadelphia police in 1985.
As calls pour in for action to be taken over the use of the children’s remains as props in an online Princeton anthropology course – without permission from parents of the dead children – there is also rising concern about the whereabouts of the bones.
Fragments belonging to one or possibly two Black children have been held by the universities for 36 years, but now appear to have gone missing.
Decades After Police Bombing, Philadelphians âSickenedâ by Handling of Victimâs Bones
The disclosure that anthropologists at two Ivy League universities had kept bones from a victim of the 1985 MOVE bombing infuriated its members as well as city leaders.
The police, firefighters and workers searching the rubble on Osage Avenue after the police bombing that killed 11 people and destroyed dozens of homes.Credit.George Widman/Associated Press
April 24, 2021, 9:06 a.m. ET
In the early evening of May 13, 1985, the police flew a helicopter over a crowded West Philadelphia neighborhood and dropped a bomb on the rowhouse where members of the communal, anti-government group MOVE lived.
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Passed-around remains of Philadelphia MOVE bombing victim spur controversy
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By Craig R. McCoy, The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
PHILADELPHIA More than 35 years after 11 bodies were found in the rubble of the MOVE rowhouse, new questions have emerged over how two universities treated the remains of one victim.
The remains, never conclusively identified, were turned over to a University of Pennsylvania professor by an official investigative commission for additional forensic examination shortly after the 1985 disaster on Osage Avenue. Ever since, the material has been shuttled back and forth between Penn and Princeton University.
The remains a pelvic bone and part of a femur were initially subjected to detailed analysis by Penn anthropology professor Alan Mann and kept at the Penn Museum.
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