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Newell Chapel CME
Meridian, Mississippi · Meridian Civil Rights Trail
Historical Marker Database · Mark Hilton
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Newell Chapel CME Church was involved in Civil Rights meetings and voter registration projects. It was one of three original locations of the Head Start program. The church parsonage was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1968.
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Meridian, Mississippi · USA
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