Word: kiln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Josle Kiln (H) d. Eliza Glory...
...send 500 demonstrators apiece. Some local groups helped raise money to defray costs for those who wanted to take part. At an interdenominational church service in Birmingham a week ago, a special collection netted $385 for that city's 15 travelers. Sisters at the Annunciation Convent in tiny Kiln, Miss., pooled their resources so that one of their members could attend the demonstration...
...grandson of a Mississippi slave, Wilkins was born Aug. 30, 1901, in St. Louis. His parents were both college graduates, his father an ordained minister who could find work only as a foreman in a brick kiln. When Roy Wilkins was four, his mother died of tuberculosis and he was sent to live with relatives in St. Paul. He grew up in a poor but integrated, predominantly Scandinavian neighborhood, working his way through the University of Minnesota as a porter, dining-car waiter and stockyard worker...