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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 22
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Memorial p: .
held for 4. girls .
An estimated 700 marchers: ‘McNair, father of Denise’,
paraded from Sixteenth Street -
Baptist Church to City Hau
here Sunday in memory of
four children killed in the 1963
bombing of the church.
Memorial services for the
four girls were held on the”
City Hall front steps with’
white and Negro ministers ”
participating.
Rey. John Porter, minister.
at Sixth Avenue ~ Baptist
~MeNair, one of the girls killed
in the bombing. .
“©MoNAIR TOLD, marchers ~
that as long as the murderers
responsible for the 196% bomb-_
ing roamed the streets, no ”
one’s children are safe.
“What safer place could as: = ”
| father find to take his little
girl and expect her to be safe, ,
than to his church?” asked ¢
Charch Was parade marshal,, McNair. . oes +k
' and one of the principal
speakers at the memorial.
i Clarence Woods, local anti-”
poverty official, headed the
memorial service which lasted
almost an hour. Principle
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eaker was Chris ‘Mac’
Rev. Calvin W. ‘Woods, min- 7 *
ister -of East End Baptist -
_Church, told the group that.3 2.
next week ~ “We're going to ~
see the FBI and the chief of
police, and even the “governor
ang say: ‘We want, action’. "
(Indicate page, name of ;
newspaper, city and state.)
_. BIRMINGHAM,
Date: “9. 16- 68
Edition: Metro
Author: .
editor: John W. Bloomer
tite: BAPBOMB
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Submitilag Office: BH
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