| Summary: | The chain-link wire has been removed from the gate of the fence surrounding the schoolyard. From an article describing the event ("Negro Youths Hurl Rocks") published in the Birmingham Post-Herald on January 12, 1966: "Negro demonstrations continued here yesterday at a stepped-up pace as students at Parker High School sent a barrage of rocks at policemen who were called to prevent youngsters from leaving to join demonstrators. Officers reportedly fired their shotguns over the head of the students as they strained against a fence which encloses the Negro high school. No one was hurt and approximately 20 of the students finally ran through the broken gate and marched off in the direction of the gathering point for the demonstrating group. . . . Approximately 250 youngsters marched from Kelly Ingram Park in the afternoon to City Hall where the leader, Hosea Williams, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, again made demands for community voter registration."
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