On January 1, 1974, more than 500 gang members from across the city met in North Philadelphia to discuss a way to end their territorial blood war.
“The killings were going on, they were raging,” says Queen Mother Falaka Fattah (seated in photo), founder and CEO of House of Umoja, a community organization located ay 56th and Master Streets in West Philadelphia.
Fattah opened her home in the early 1970s to gang members. It had become a respite for young men seeking peace, and she asked them how to end the bloodshed, which was being recorded with daily scores in the local newspaper.
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