Category Archives: civil rights
Go Tell It on the Mountain; a temple is razed and innocent blood spilled again
I was here in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sept. 15, 1963, when that infamous bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church. It failed to wake me because I was sound asleep at home on a Sunday morning, eight miles away … Continue reading
Filed under civil rights, History
Jerry Proctor is the handle. I've logged 45 years in the newspaper racket. I've done interesting stuff from soldiering in Asia to fighting with the Society for Creative Anachronisms in Alabama. Statistics: married, four kids, two grand kids, retired. Like almost everything from Art to Zoology. "Thunderations" is a 19th century way of uttering an imprecation respectably.
