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    The document is a found poem created from phrases taken from a 1963 news article about a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama that killed six people. The poem describes the violence and unrest following the bombing, including fires set at black-owned businesses, shots fired and cars stoned in black neighborhoods, and a 16-year-old black youth being shot dead by police for refusing to stop stoning cars. It also provides context that the bombed church held 400 black people including 80 children, and that the bombing was the 21st such bombing in Birmingham that remained unsolved.

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    The document is a found poem created from phrases taken from a 1963 news article about a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama that killed six people. The poem describes the violence and unrest following the bombing, including fires set at black-owned businesses, shots fired and cars stoned in black neighborhoods, and a 16-year-old black youth being shot dead by police for refusing to stop stoning cars. It also provides context that the bombed church held 400 black people including 80 children, and that the bombing was the 21st such bombing in Birmingham that remained unsolved.

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    Foundpoem Chelseaellerson

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    The document is a found poem created from phrases taken from a 1963 news article about a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama that killed six people. The poem describes the violence and unrest following the bombing, including fires set at black-owned businesses, shots fired and cars stoned in black neighborhoods, and a 16-year-old black youth being shot dead by police for refusing to stop stoning cars. It also provides context that the bombed church held 400 black people including 80 children, and that the bombing was the 21st such bombing in Birmingham that remained unsolved.

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    Type your found poem (a poem created using phrases from the article) below the line.

    This poem uses words and phrases from Six Dead after Church Bombing, published in The
    Washington Post on September 16, 1963.

    Your title: Black Lives Matter


    Your poem:
    Five fires in Negro business establishments tonight
    Shots crackled in the Negro sections,
    Stones smashed cars driven by whites,

    City police shot a 16-year-old negro to death,


    Caught him stoning cars,
    Shot when he refused to halt

    Negro church triggering outbreaks of violence,


    16th street Baptist church bomber,
    Church held 400 negros,
    Including 80 children,
    Dozens of survivors faces dripping blood

    Bombing was 21st in Birmingham


    None of the bombings have been solved

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