Word: birminghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIRMINGHAM, Sept. 22--Eight white men including a high ranking official of the militantly segregationist National States Rights party were indicted today by a special Federal grand jury investigating alleged interference with school desegregation court orders...
...indictments stemmed from incidents which occurred when three Birmingham schools were desegregated beginning Sept. 4. Pickets appeared at West End High School, Ramsay High School and Graymont Elementary School...
While thousands attended memorial services across the country for the six Negro children who died in Birmingham, Ala., a week ago, a member of the bombed 16th Ave. Baptist Church spoke at the Roxbury rally...
Attorney Orzel Billingsley said, "All of us in Birmingham believe in non-violence, but none of us is so naive to believe that, if our churches continue to be bombed, our people can keep fighting on the basis of love and non-violence...
...Anniston, Ala. Star, which had bridled last year at the violence with which the city met the first Freedom Riders, convicted Wallace of "reckless asininity." But even normally sympathetic papers found the Governor more than they could stomach. "George Wallace is not 'saving Alabama,' " said the Birmingham News, a militantly segregationist daily. "He is in the process of destroying self-government and the educational system of this state...