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...that has haunted Birmingham, Ala. and is credited with awakening the nation to the savagery of the civil rights struggle in the South finally came to an end. Former Ku Klux Klansman Cherry, 71, was found guilty of four counts of murder in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in 1963 that killed four young girls...
...Frank Sikora covered the civil rights movement in Birmingham and is the author of the 1991 book "Until Justice Rolls Down" which chronicled the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, and "Selma, Lord, Selma," a verbal history of the civil rights struggle in that Alabama city...
...vision, friends insist, involved not only stringing together scores of lucrative telecom companies--amassing what is today the nation's second largest long-distance firm--but also helping bridge the racial and economic divides that continue to plague Mississippi. A transplanted Canadian, Ebbers, 60, teaches Sunday school at his Baptist church each week, serves meals to the homeless at Frank's Famous Biscuits in downtown Jackson, Miss., lives modestly in a prefab home, wears jeans and boots to the office and has poured almost all his once considerable fortune back into his company. Walker says Ebbers "is too committed...
...ride down for Ebbers, but then he enjoyed a long ride up. Born to a working-class family and reared in Edmonton, Alta., in western Canada, the 6-ft. 4-in. Ebbers worked as a milkman and bar bouncer before winning a basketball scholarship to Mississippi College, a small Baptist school in Jackson. He stayed on in Mississippi as a basketball coach and hotel owner. Then, in 1983, he met a group of investors who had come to technologically deprived central Mississippi to cash in on the federally mandated breakup of AT&T. Meeting at a diner in Hattiesburg, Miss...
According to Jeffrey Barneson, a chaplain with the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Campolo—an evangelical Baptist preacher and professor of sociology—suffered a stroke on Saturday, April 6 while travelling from Honolulu, Hawaii, and spent the night in an area hospital...