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routed In » three-block area around the Chu@be-seyes Three cars parked near the church side entrance were knocked four feet backward by the explosion. Sides of the almost demolished vehicles were dotted with large holes caused by flying debris. Inside, the church was in shambles in the rear sec- tion. Force of the blast had twisted chairs, shredded wooden benches and knocked out windows. Windows were knocked aut of buildings a block away and occupants af houses said they were knocked off their feet, Police at City Hall at the time said the building seemed (o shudder, “WE WERE ALU IN Sunday School classrooms when the bomb went off.” said primary teacher Miss Effie JJ McCaw. “I told the children in my class te He on floor “The teachers kept the congregation from panicking. We couldn't get to the children in the basement. Every: one walked outside in a hurry. There was no scream: crying.” She said debris came crashing down in the rear of the church and many persons were cut and bruised. About 200 persons were in the chureh. A huge crater was dug by the blast at the Sixteenth Street entrance to the church, Concrete steps that led to the ral + iram the side door were blown away Detective Lt Maurice House said the bomb had been placed in an abandoned stairwell outside the rest: room, The side doer was locked, he said, and no one used the stairs Irading to the basement level. THE CHURCH PASTOR, the Rev J, H.C was jnlted by the blast Birmingham police had been guarding the church at night, ainng with other Negro churches where desesrega tion meetings had heen held in past months Sea os iste at block aay fram a Neges moi! which was bombed after the untisegresation demon lions fast May Ne one was hurt ia this explesion, ‘The same night. the parsinage home of the Rev AD. King, brother of the anti-segregation leader, Rev. Martir Lu- ther King. also was bombed, with no casualties. Negro attorney Shores’ hume has been bombed twice recently Two tirehombs were tossed last week at the heme of A. G. Gaston, Birmingham Negro millionaire and i nessman, One of the so-cailed “Molotay cocktails,” a ted hotle with a wick for a fuse, crashed (he window of the Gaston home and damaned a drape. The other ie! harmlessly va the ground ss. said he saline Cree. THE CHURCH EXPLOSION SUNDAY came U1 days after Birmingham desegregated three public schaols over the vehement objections of the governor and segregation orgcmizaty Five Negro children were enrolled at the three pre \iously ail white Birmingham <chools after the Alahama National Guard was federalized to overcome the gover Nor’s resistance. Birmingham has had more than 49 bombings in recent years. all apparenliy connected with the racial situ No one has been arrested in connection with the bombings. ‘The bombed church was places d one of the main meeting ring mass flemonstratians by Negroes here in ine Ruy Wilkins. executive seeretary for the p Lathes King and ouher Negro iamcadess there. spoke at rallies