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@The home of AD. King. the brother of Martin Luther King Jr. @ The firebombing of the home of A.G. Gaston WA shrapnel” bornb that was discharged along Center Street on Sept. 25, 1953. A smaller charge went off, followed 15 minutes later eyolocive that chat ant CAD WSIVE widt SOL Gut by the larger nails and clutch plates. No one was hurt It was the last bombing of that era Whites. too, who had tried to bring about racial harmony, faced threats in these times. Sid Smyer i] was 10 in 1963 and has vivid memories of that trying year. His grandfather. Sid Smyer, was nresident of the Rirmingham Cham- presigen: Of one GUTTUINe nam dam ber of Commerce and was one of the white leaders who had met with President Kennedy and with civil rights groups to try to bring racial harmony to the city. Said the younger Smyer: “I think one of the focal peints of my growing up was the night we were awakened after midnight, and still in our paja- mas, went to my grandfather’s house where people had come and thrown bricks through his windows because they hated that he was a peacemaker, that he was part of a group that had done something.” |