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In the Birmingham Jail
Deming, Barbara | May 25, 1963 issue

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The article presents the author's experiences in a jail in Birmingham, Alabama for joining a group of African American demonstrations--children the most of them--who were petitioning without a license," for the right to be treated like human beings. The steps which took the author from the African American church in which he had spent the early part of that day, sitting among the children as they were carefully briefed and finally, in small groups, one after another, marched, holding hands and singing, into the streets-"marching toward freedom land" the steps which placed me swiftly then in the white women's ward of the city jail provided a jolt for the mind that can still, recalling it, astonish the author.

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AFRICAN Americans; DEMONSTRATIONS; POLITICAL participation; JAILS; BIRMINGHAM (Ala.); ALABAMA; UNITED States
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