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Title
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Letter from Dr. Wendell P. Russell to the Editor, <em>The Washington Post</em>
Date
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1963 September 17
Source
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M 228, Box 28. <a title="Finding aid" href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00069.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Margaret Freeman Cabell Papers, 1910 - 1982</a>
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This is a carbon copy of the letter Dr. Russell, Dean of Students at Virginia Union University, sent to the editor of <em>The Washington Post</em> on September 17, 1963 in response to the Post's editorial "Reaping the Whirlwind." This carbon copy was sent to Margaret Freeman Cabell along with a copy of a letter sent to the Rev. John H. Cross, Jr., pastor of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama. <br /><br />The <a title="View letter to from Dr. Russell to the Rev. Cross" href="https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/79600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter to the Rev. Cross</a> was sent along with contributions from churches and individuals in Richmond, Virginia who wished to express their sympathy and contribute to the rebuilding of the Sixteenth Street Baptist after the bombing carried out by members of the Ku Klux Klan on September 15, 1963.
John H. Cross
Jr.
Ku Klux Klan
Margaret Freeman Cabell
racism
Sixteeenth Street Baptist Church
Washington Post
Wendell P. Russell
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Title
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Letter from Dr. Wendell P. Russell to the Rev. John H. Cross, Jr.
Date
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1963 October 21
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
M 228, Box 28. <a title="Finding aid" href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00069.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Margaret Freeman Cabell Papers, 1910 - 1982</a>
Description
An account of the resource
This is a carbon copy of a letter sent by Dr. Wendell P. Russell, Dean of Students at Virginia Union University, to the Rev. John H. Cross, Jr., pastor of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama. John H. Cross, Jr. was a student at the Virginia Union University School of Theology, and received his Masters of Divinity in 1959. Cross was pastor at Gravel Hill Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia in 1962 when he was called to the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.<br /><br />Included with this letter is a carbon copy of the letter Dr. Russell sent to the editor of <em>The Washington Post </em>on September 17, 1963 in response to the <em>Post's</em> editorial "Reaping the Whirlwind."
John H. Cross
Ku Klux Klan
Margaret Freeman Cabell
racism
Sixteeenth Street Baptist Church
Virginia Union University
Wendell P. Russell