On Sept. 22, 1963, one week after four young girls were killed in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) organized a protest march of over 10,000 from All Souls Church on Meridian Hill to Lafayette Square.

ID: 4182 ~ Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - All Souls Unitarian
On Sept. 22, 1963, one week after four young girls were killed in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) organized a protest march of over 10,000 from All Souls Church on Meridian Hill to Lafayette Square.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - All Souls Unitarian

All Souls Church, originally an all-white congregation, was founded at Judiciary Square in 1821; it moved to 16th and Harvard streets in 1924.  During the 1940s and 50s under the leadership of Reverend A. Powell Davies (1944-1957), the church came…