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On Palm Sunday, 1963, Rev. N. H. Smith, Rev. John T. Porter, and Rev. A. D. King led a sympathy march from St. Paul United Methodist Church down 6th Avenue North in support of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, and Rev. Ralph Abernathy, who were in jail. Two thousand marchers assembled behind Smith, Porter, and King like a "storm cloud." The march climaxed at Kelly Ingram Park, where the marchers were met by billy clubs and police dogs. In the heat of the event, the three ministers knelt to pray. These three ministers, along with other clergy and laypersons, were at the core of the movement that changed the world.
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