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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 22

69 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Terrorism · Topic: 16th Street Church Bombing · 67 pages OCR'd
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—o ~ | The father of one of sew ff ligative agencies have sought {[has tak Neers girls killed in the | flues to the bombing, bombing of The Sixteenth ?* resis have been made. | teacher EStreet Baptist Church in! Speakers at Sunday's me- | SBirmingham Eve years azo ‘morial march condemned the : outdate ‘lack of arrests. | “tf Thad been told on that | day five years ‘ago that «it. “would take three weeks or alt to the an pleaded Sunday for the bomh- er's capture. ; . e:“As' long as you Jet the guilty run free,” Chris McNair teld about 700 peaple fmonth - to. salve this hideous gee gathered at City Hall after a foome ~would have said th lhree-block march from Six- [person who sold me did not}| in Alabama. ele teenth Street Baptist Church, know what “he was. talking}) | The Rev. Calvin Woods told’! _ .O ‘your child is no safer than! hout,"” McNair ‘Said in his}, the crowd progress had been * Bening was.” hort, emotional speech. : made in racial relations ~ ‘int > Mrs. McNair placed a four- Another speaker, the Rev, ? Birmingham since the chaotic foot cross of white mums at | Yohn Thomas Porter of Sixth } Summer of 1963. ° 2 a gthe door cof City Hall. A Avenue Baptist Church, said a “We've come a long way,” march leader, Clarence dclegaton would go next he suid, “but we still have a- ay oods, said the cross Was put | _ week to police, FBI and the long way to go.” -. __ Wihere “because this is where / overnor, to ask for a step- up | He called for better ‘employ? * to ' sthe guilt lies.” ; in the investigation. _ment cpportunity for theg. ; : J The marcher S, mostly city’s Negroes and asked that 4 ___ BIRMINGHAM , Al AB AMA Elevyen-year-ald Denise feNair and i-year-olds Carol} iMoberison, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins werd . ied Sunday, Sept. 1s, 19634 Negro, waiked silently four- abreast from the church ta City Hall, One of the speakers was the! pee tee etter, Fi ib a: the fwhen a bomb blast. ripped rere the church basement - ynere they were in ‘Sunday Negroes were kihed by in the afternoon “of > "racial disturbances: that ‘fol’ el lowed the bombing, and 23 : were arrested, Gov. George Cc. 8 ; = Wallace sent 300 state trdop- . ra rs te Birmingham, at the request of Mayor Albert Bout- ell, and offered a $500 re-}: ard. eee Cily, slate and federal inve- f Rev. Chartes s. sullivan, “who f but no a John Carroil High School “symbolic protest against ‘ingham- , Archbishop Thomas J, Toole. * ‘The Rev, Sullivan apoligine 2 * said was the church’s appar: *- ent unconcern for civil t rights policemen. en leave of absence as (indlcate page, name of newspaper, clty and state.) in what he called a d attitudes” . of Burm: Mobile Diocese marchers for what he. . 5 THE BIRMINGHAM post ze HERALD n city hire more Negra Date: 9-16-68 Edition:P inal * | Author: Claude Duncan _ [Edite: Duard LeGrand Title: _ BAPBOME | t Character: “ysy- 382-541 eR Clasaification: : Submitting Office: BH tC) Being Investigated | SEARCHED NDEXED fa*> ees J, ay oe [o> SEPA? 1968, ! FBI—BIRMIN
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