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...summer school students who enrolled in Physics S-1 face disciplinary action for using prepared answer codes for their exams. On the same day, Reverend Peter J. Gomes is named Minister of Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian morals, and is the both the first black and first Baptist to hold the position. 24 - Thirty black residents set up a roadblock to prevent whites from entering Columbia Point in Boston, causing police to take over the Columbia Point People's Center and set up sharpshooters on nearby rooftops to quell the disturbances. The police action sparks demonstrations and protests...
...bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church has been under investigation by law-enforcement officials, off and on, for almost four decades. Within days of the bombing, four men--Cherry, Blanton, Chambliss and Herman Frank Cash--were considered prime suspects. But according to some officials, witness statements were hard to come by. First there was the fear: If a person were to testify, would there be reprisals? Then there was hopelessness: Would a court in segregationist Alabama really do justice? And then there were the cops. During the '60s, the Klan had ears and eyes and tongues within the local...
Investigators believe that around 2 a.m. on Sept. 15, 1963, Blanton drove his turquoise-and-white 1957 Chevy to 16th Street with Chambliss, Cash and Cherry. While the others waited, Cherry placed a 12-stick package of dynamite in a window well outside the 16th Street Baptist Church. The bomb exploded eight hours later, killing Denise McNair, 11, and Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Addie Mae Collins, all 14. The martyred girls horrified the nation and transfigured the civil rights movement...
...quite a day when it happened. I remember being at a church which was a few blocks away from the 16th Street Baptist Church, and just being completely shocked by the sound. It was almost like a train coming. Then about an hour later, word started to spread on what had happened. Everybody rushed home to watch television. It was just awful. Then we learned the names of the little girls who had been killed, and everybody knew at least one of them. I knew Denise McNair. She grew up in my neighborhood. Her dad was the photographer...
...that city has been trying to bring closure for a long time to what happened. I visited the civil rights museum there just about a month ago for the first time when I was there to give a speech. It sits right across the street from the 16th Street Baptist Church, and across from Kelly Ingram Park, where the police dogs were. The curator was telling me that corporate contributions had at first come slowly. But soon every major corporation in Birmingham was contributing. She talked about how this museum gave closure to what Birmingham had been through. I thought...