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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 11
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‘he man's solemn comment:
Lord giveth and the Lord
North; Denise McNair, 11,
ighter of Mrs. Maxine Mc-
Mrs. Alice Collins of 232”
sixth Court West.
ISH WAS A tiving ‘night
as 15 injured Negroes
Were rushed in by ambulances.
‘This was the immediate toll
n by a dynamite explosion
ig worship services Sunday
Baptist Church, near downtown
Birmingham.
‘Three white persons were
treated at University Hospital in
ithe ensuing hours for cuts and
s from rocks hurled by
Nezroes. One of them was-ad-
iitted. : oe
Sunday morning quietness on
“Southside, beginning about
*10:35 a.m, ‘
*: HUNDREDS OF curious per-
sons flocked to the hospital
emergency entrance.
- They were held back by ropes,
strung around the entrance and
guards stationed at the door.
* Within minutes, hospital offi-
lcialghad. summoned all avail-
jable help.
. and dead were desperately’
the Sixteenth Street Negro -
. Ambulance sirens cut the .
(Mount Clipping in Spoce Below)
: HOSPITAL GUARDS dispersed,
serowds of Negroes who gathered:
outside the hospital. _
Inside families-of the jure
ing to ‘get information:
woman, was brought in and ad-
mitted with lacerations i
concussion. .
“We were riding throu e
‘rea where the bomb went off
going to the airport and mom-
ma was hit with a brick,” Mrs.
alter’s ‘son related. She lives
at 150 Brook Lane Drive.
A “WHITE, MAN,
Slimp, 51, ‘of 329 Street
SW, was hit by a brick. He was
treated and reléased.
‘of Chicago, on their honeymoon,
passed through the bombing
area. Mrs. Allea was struck by
a rock and was treated and re-
leased at the hospital. ”
~ Several other white people
were brought in for lacerations
of the hea
thrown bricks and rocks. ~
One Negro man, who was
upstairs when the bomb went
Off, said he tried desperately
to keep other from panicking.
B. H. WILSON SR., a trustee
of the church, said he helped to
lead people out of the church.
- After about three hours things
were back to normal at the hos-
pital and most of the injured
had been treated and released.
The efficient mannewismehigh
ages
Mrs. Helon Salter, 54, a white
james R.
Mr. and Mrs, Michael Aller’
“ter, 65, 200 Fourth Ave.
the Rev. J. H.. Pullen,” 6520,
seth’ Avé> North;- Charles “Bry~
oc 1h th Way NOP ENS
), 807 [aus Sy:
Lynn. | praca 35,
“available; Joseph Parrish,”2i
10th Ave. South. |.
_, Sam Zeigler, 68, 2111 1th’
Noxth; Georgia . Jotins
Sixth Ave. North; “Jonat
Jones, 12, no address; Lillian
; Pollard, 24, 57 Ninth Ave. North;
Sarah Collins, 10, address not
- available; William Griar, 43,
‘11th “Court” West; ~ Bernadine
Mathews, 15, 1816 Center Way
fy. Sp
and face caised by ©
(Indicate page, name of
newspaper, city and state.)
6 THE BIRMUNGHAM NLS
THE BIRMINGHAM
POS T-RUKALD
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BIRMINGHAM, ALAGAMA
Date: 9/46/53
Edition: KE
Authors Ba
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