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Lawrence Guyot with supporters outside the bombed 16th Street Baptist Church

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Activist Lawrence Guyot (front row, third from right, in white shirt and black tie) linking hands with supporters gathered outside the bombed 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. The September 15, 1963 bombing killed four young African-American girls.
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Discrimination
  4. Funerals
  5. Guyot, Lawrence, Jr., 1939 2012
  6. Racial Discrimination
  7. Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.)

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