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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 22
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| The father of one of sew ff ligative agencies have sought {[has tak
Neers girls killed in the | flues to the bombing,
bombing of The Sixteenth ?* resis have been made. | teacher
EStreet Baptist Church in! Speakers at Sunday's me- |
SBirmingham Eve years azo ‘morial march condemned the : outdate
‘lack of arrests.
| “tf Thad been told on that |
day five years ‘ago that «it.
“would take three weeks or alt to the
an
pleaded Sunday for the bomh-
er's capture. ; .
e:“As' long as you Jet the
guilty run free,” Chris
McNair teld about 700 peaple fmonth - to. salve this hideous
gee gathered at City Hall after a foome ~would have said th
lhree-block march from Six- [person who sold me did not}| in Alabama. ele
teenth Street Baptist Church, know what “he was. talking}) | The Rev. Calvin Woods told’! _ .O
‘your child is no safer than! hout,"” McNair ‘Said in his}, the crowd progress had been *
Bening was.” hort, emotional speech. : made in racial relations ~ ‘int >
Mrs. McNair placed a four- Another speaker, the Rev, ? Birmingham since the chaotic
foot cross of white mums at | Yohn Thomas Porter of Sixth } Summer of 1963. ° 2 a
gthe door cof City Hall. A Avenue Baptist Church, said a “We've come a long way,”
march leader, Clarence dclegaton would go next he suid, “but we still have a-
ay oods, said the cross Was put | _ week to police, FBI and the long way to go.” -. __
Wihere “because this is where / overnor, to ask for a step- up | He called for better ‘employ? * to '
sthe guilt lies.” ; in the investigation. _ment cpportunity for theg. ; :
J The marcher S, mostly city’s Negroes and asked that 4 ___ BIRMINGHAM , Al AB AMA
Elevyen-year-ald Denise
feNair and i-year-olds Carol}
iMoberison, Cynthia Wesley
and Addie Mae Collins werd
. ied Sunday, Sept. 1s, 19634
Negro, waiked silently four-
abreast from the church ta
City Hall,
One of the speakers was the!
pee tee etter,
Fi
ib a: the
fwhen a bomb blast. ripped
rere the church basement
- ynere they were in ‘Sunday
Negroes were kihed by
in the afternoon “of >
"racial disturbances: that ‘fol’
el lowed the bombing, and 23
: were arrested, Gov. George Cc. 8 ; =
Wallace sent 300 state trdop- . ra
rs te Birmingham, at the
request of Mayor Albert Bout-
ell, and offered a $500 re-}:
ard.
eee
Cily, slate and federal inve- f Rev. Chartes s. sullivan, “who f
but no a John Carroil High School
“symbolic protest against
‘ingham-
, Archbishop Thomas J, Toole. *
‘The Rev, Sullivan apoligine 2 *
said was the church’s appar: *-
ent unconcern for civil t rights
policemen.
en leave of absence as
(indlcate page, name of
newspaper, clty and state.)
in what he called a
d attitudes” . of Burm:
Mobile Diocese
marchers for what he. .
5 THE BIRMINGHAM post ze
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city hire more Negra
Date: 9-16-68
Edition:P inal
* | Author: Claude Duncan
_ [Edite: Duard LeGrand
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