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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 22
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BY CLAUDE DUNCAN ly, slate and federal inve- Rev. Chartes S. Sul
ive agencies have sought |[nas taken leave of absence as
{indicate page, name of
The father of one of four :
; one Of four ‘a John Carroll: High School Undicate page, neme of
girls killed in thet
of The Sixteenth
Baptist. Church in:
{flues to the bombing, but no
prresis have been made. eacher in what he called a
Speakers at Sunday's me- | ‘symbolic protest against
five ye. if \sporial march condemned the ! outdated attitudes” of Birm
Eve years ago °
H pleaded Sunday for the bomb. \lck of atrests. ingham-Mablie Dioc
. “If Thad been told on that , Archbishop Thomas J. Toolen,
{ day five years ago that-it;, | ‘The Rev, Sullivan apoligizell-
gully run free," Chris Would take three weeks or 2 {o the marchers for what he
McNair told abou! 709 peapie fmonth .to. solve this hideousy said was the church's appar’ ~
crime I-would have said thel} ent unconcern for civil rights,
person who told me did not{! in Alabama.
know what “he was: talkingl! The Rey. Calvin Woods tol
i" pout,” McNair said in his, the crowd progress had been”
hort, emotional speech. _ made in racial relations “in»
‘Another speaker, the Rev.| Birmingham since the chaotic
ohn Thomas Porter of Sixth } Summer of 1963. rn
“Avenve Baptist Church, said a “We've come a Jong way.”
fEmarch leader, Clarence dclegation would go next he suid, “but we still have @
Bods, said the cross was put | Weck to police, FBI and the . long way to g0.” : —
Where “because this is where | fovernor, to ask for a step-up | j1 cated for better ‘emplo,
i in the investigation. ment opportunity for the,
‘he marchers, mostly foity’s Negroes and asked that| J BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
Negro, watked silently fourt |tye ety hire mora Negra —_ ’
i fabreast from the church 9) | ooticemen
5 THE BIRMINGHAM POST
HERALD
gathered at City Hall afler a
three-block march from Six-
teenth Sircet Baptist Church,
SS no safer than
Mrs. McNair placed a fours
foot cross of white mums at .
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“Bnd Addie Mae Collins werd icity Halt
illed Sunday, Sept. 13, 1963 One of the speakers was the!”
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author: Claude Duncan
edit: Duard LeGrand
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Ethrough the church basement
Where they were in ‘Sunday
‘School
i. Two Negroes were kiked by
epolice in the afternoon “of . ty
Sracial disturbances that ‘fol- 5
flowed the bombing, and 23 . : Cheiecter:
Twere arrested, Gov. George C. : eroee
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Clasaification:
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equest of Mayor Albert Bout-
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