Black Children In Alabama Risked Their Lives For Civil Rights. One Woman Recounts Her Experience 60 Years Later

Black Children In Alabama Risked Their Lives For Civil Rights. One Woman Recounts Her Experience 60 Years Later

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City Of Birmingham/ Urban Press By Melissa Noel ·Updated August 21, 2023

Birmingham, Alabama— 60 years ago, when Janice Wesley Kelsey heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s lieutenant, Rev. James Bevel, speak during a mass meeting at New Pilgrim Baptist Church in Birmingham,

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