ABSTRACT
This speech was given at the Human Rights Rally sponsored by the Boston Lesbian and Gay Political Association on June 11, 1985. Chinn was at this time the president of the Black Men's Association, Inc., based in Boston, and a member of the law faculty of Northeastern University. The “recent action” against MOVE (an antitechnology collective advocating a “back-to-nature” lifestyle) that he refers to is the destruction, on May 13, 1985, of the group's communal house in Philadelphia by the city's police force, which caused eleven deaths.
