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Tribute To Dr. King
1963
On June 23, MLK leads 125,000 people on a Free- dom Walk in Detroit.
The March on Washing- ton held August 28 is the largest civil rights demon- stration in history with nearly 250,000 people in attendance.
16th Street Baptist Church After Bombing
On Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, the con-
gregation of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham,
Alabama was busy preparing for Youth Day, an annual
opportunity to honor the children by giving them roles
in conducting the service. After Sunday school five girls
stood checking their appearance in front of a mirror in
the ladies room in the basement. At 10:22 a.m. a
tremendous blast shook the entire church. The bomb
was so powerful that the outside brick and stone wall collapsed into the basement. Out of the rubble staggered 12-year old Sarah Collins, calling the name of her sister Addie Mae. Partially blinded and riddled with 21 pieces of broken glass, she was the only one in the room to survive. Four other children died: Denise McNair, 11, Addie Mae Collins, 14, Carole Robertson, 14, and Cynthia Wesley, 14. As news of the bombing spread across the na- tion, and around the world, people of all races were moved to outrage by the tragedy.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and re- discover those precious val- ues - that all reality hinges on moral foun- dations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
At the march, King makes his famous I Have a Dream speech.
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