Word: birmingham
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CONVICTED. BOBBY FRANK CHERRY, 71, former Ku Klux Klan activist; of first-degree murder in the deaths of four young girls in the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., church; in Birmingham. Sentenced to life in prison under 1963 Alabama law, Cherry, who bragged about his deed, was the third man to be convicted of the crime that shamed pro-segregationist whites and galvanized civil rights leaders (a fourth died before being tried). Of the 39-year march toward justice, Sarah Collins Rudolph, the sister of victim Addie Mae Collins, said, "It was a long time...
State Treasurer Shannon P. O’Brien narrowly won the party endorsement over state Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham ’72 by garnering over 50 percent of the vote in the third round of balloting, giving her a strong edge in the three-month fight for primary votes...
...Brien stressed issues of fiscal responsibility and her record of strong leadership, while longtime Beacon Hill insider Birmingham, who also began with a smoothly-edited video, pushed hard on his background as a labor union lawyer...
...Birmingham accused Romney of attempting a “corporate takeover” of the commonwealth...
...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...