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Letter to Margaret Freeman Cabell from the Rebuilding Fund Committee, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama

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Title: Letter to Margaret Freeman Cabell from the Rebuilding Fund Committee, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama
Date: 1963 November 1
Description: Letter to Margaret Freeman Cabell from The Rev. John H. Cross, Jr., pastor of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, and Samuel O'Neill, Chairman Rebuilding Committee, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. The letter thanks her for her sympathy and her financial contribution in response to the bombing of the church on September 15, 1963.

Mrs. Cabell contributed to the Rebuilding Fund following an appeal sent out by Dr. Wendell P. Russell, Dean of Students at Virginia Union University. A carbon copy (sent to Mrs. Cabell) of the letter from Dr. Russell to the Rev. Cross with the monies Dr. Russell collected is included in this folder.
Citation:
“Letter to Margaret Freeman Cabell from the Rebuilding Fund Committee, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama,” VCU Libraries Gallery, accessed March 29, 2024, https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/79599.