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City Of Birmingham/ Urban Press By Melissa Noel ·Updated August 21, 2023
Birmingham, Alabama— 60 years ago, when Janice Wesley Kelsey heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s lieutenant, Rev. James Bevel, speak during a mass meeting at New Pilgrim Baptist Church in Birmingham, she decided to help fight for desegregation.
At just 16 years old, Mrs. Kelsey became a foot soldier in the Birmingham, Alabama Children’s Crusades and was
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