Word: birminghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started with a portentous announcement from the Governor's office two weeks ago as FBI agents probed deep into the bombing that killed four Negro girls at a Birmingham church (TIME, Sept. 27). "State investigators," Wallace boasted, "expect to break the Birmingham church case within the next few hours...
...ruined the chance that the three could ever be convicted of the church bombing. And that was the way it turned out. Without sufficient evidence of the bombing, Wallace's officials finally settled for a charge of illegally possessing dynamite, a misdemeanor about as common in Birmingham as jaywalking in many a U.S. city...
...Larry Joe Sims, for first-degree murder in the death of a 13-year-old Negro, Virgil Ware. In the disorders that followed the church deaths, Virgil was shot as he rode on the handle bars of his brother's bicycle. The grand jury refused to indict Birmingham Policeman Jack Parker for the fatal shooting of another Negro teenager, Johnny Robinson, 16, who was part of a group that stoned white men's cars in the post-bombing riot...
...most disturbing aspects of the Birmingham situation is that 95% of Governor Wallace's mail, according to him, is favorable to his racist stand...
Phillips Brooks House will receive $3250 from the drive. Also receiving funds are the United Fund of Greater Boston, American Friends Service Committee. World University Service, National Association for Mental Health, National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, and Miles College in Birmingham...