Letter from Dr. Wendell P. Russell to the Rev. John H. Cross, Jr.

Title: Letter from Dr. Wendell P. Russell to the Rev. John H. Cross, Jr.

Date: 1963 October 21

Source: M 228, Box 28. Margaret Freeman Cabell Papers, 1910 - 1982

Description: 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.

Included with this letter is a carbon copy of the letter Dr. Russell sent to the editor of The Washington Post on September 17, 1963 in response to the Post's editorial "Reaping the Whirlwind."