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More Negroes arrived, and the crowd of whites began to grow until it surrounded the church. Inside, Mrs. Albert H. Constien, wife of the pastor, answered the phone and heard an anonymous voice say: "If you don't get those niggers out of that church, we'll blow it up." The mob swelled to 350. Down in the basement, the Negroes could hear every bitter shout: "Nigger, nigger, go home," and "Nigger lovers never go to heaven," and "We'll rock you out," and "Get the niggers out of there...
...score of Chicago cops stood placidly by, making no effort to break up the threatening mob. As the crowd grew angrier, Pastor Constien and his wife had mixed thoughts. Said she afterwards: "We were asked to help those people. That's why the Lord put us here." But Constien feared for the safety of his church, which had recently been redecorated to celebrate its 75th anniversary. He asked the Red Cross to evacuate the Negroes "because of the property involved." The Negroes walked to Red Cross station wagons through volleys of oranges, apples and eggs, and were taken...
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