"It was arguably the most emotionally shattering event of the civil rights era.... Sept. 15, 1963.... The event is also a reminder that while a ‘‘majority of people in the civil rights movement were African-American, there were a significant number of white Americans who basically said: This is my issue, too,’’
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Congress honors Ala. church bombing victims
No offense intended, but they have all sorts of budget problems down there and that is what they are working on?
Alabama church marks 50th anniversary of bombing by KKK
The nice thing to know is "we" can all come together now:
"A secret meeting between a representative of the Wyoming chapter of the NAACP and a Ku Klux Klan organizer ended with the Klan member paying $50 to join the civil rights organization, participants said....
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No offense, but I didn't even race through the article about Zimmerman's wife and what not, and not because I'm jealous or anything. I just don't care to be divided anymore when all of us, black, white, green, purple, gay, straight, man, woman, oppose U.S. military action in Syria, period.
"Flight recorders in fatal UPS crash located" by Jay Reeves | Associated Press, August 16, 2013
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Investigators found flight recorders on Thursday among the wreckage of a UPS jet that crashed at Birmingham’s airport, killing two pilots.
The voice and flight data recorders could hold key evidence about what happened as the jet was attempting to land in Birmingham early Wednesday. The plane slammed into a hillside just short of the runway.
The A300 jet from Louisville, Ky., crashed into a field near the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport around daybreak Wednesday, killing the two pilots on board and scattering wreckage over a wide area. The aircraft rained pieces of metal into front yards and sheared off a piece of one family’s back deck.
And yet there was nothing in that Pennsylvania field on 9/11, 2001.
Residents in a hilly neighborhood near the airport have worried for years about the possibility of a plane crash.
The crash happened in a grassy field where a neighborhood stood until several years ago, when airport officials began buying up and then razing houses to clear the area near the end of the runway.
But such offers, which began in 1986, weren’t made on some of the nearby homes....
The jet clipped trees around the Bensons’ yard, leaving broken plastic and twisted metal on the ground, and took a piece of their deck before slamming into a hill.
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