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Things Change: Alabama and the Struggle for Civil Rights |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE |
| Author: Iris Sanderson Jones |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2000 |
| Size: 1,766 Words, 10,652 Characters |
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"I've been coming to this park for 74 of my 80 years," says Col. Stone Johnson. "I first came here when I was 6 years old. Sometimes you could walk across the park, and sometimes you couldn't. At that big rock in the corner, statues now show three preachers kneeling. Everyone was kneeling when we came to gather for the big march in 1963. We started to cross the park and they put the dogs on us. Sheriff Bull Connor rode in an army tank that was painted white, and he said, 'If we can get the leaders, we can stop them.' The Reverend Shuttlesworth was on the steps there across the street, at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Bull said, 'There he is, put the water on him.' The fire hose knocked the reverend down against the church, and they took him to the hospital.
"At two o'clock in the...
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...as mayor of Birmingham for twenty years until he was replaced in 1999 by another African American, Bernard Kincaid.
Stone Johnson lived through it all, and he still tells his story to visitors from around the world in Kelly Ingram Park. How much have things changed? "There's still discrimination," he says, "so it's not exactly the way it should be, but it's a whole lot better than it was."
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