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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Negroes prepared to bury three young victims of racial violence in Birmingham today while sympathy demonstrations were planned in other parts of the nation. Appeals were issued in several cities to make Sunday a day of mourning for the four Negro children killed in the Birming ham church dynamiting. Funeral services were sched uled for Denise McNair, 11, and Addie Mae Collins and Cynthia Wesley, both 14. Extra police were assigned to duty to keep the peace in the un easy industrial city. In Massachusetts, the Cape Cod Council of Churches asked mem ber churches to tell mourning bells for the young girls. Negroes in Nashville, Tenn., prepared to make a silent sympathy march. And union sales clerks at 2,000 stores in the New York metropol itan area were ready to conduct brief memorial services. Services for the other victim of the bomb blast, Carole Robertson, 14, were held in St. John A.M.E. Church Tuesday. The church was crowded and an estimated 1,000 persons stood in the streets out (See Rites on Page 10-A, Coil, 1)
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Anniston Star
Anniston, Alabama, US
Wed, Sep 18, 1963
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