Bruce Klunder of Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Civil Rights Martyr
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| "Who can tell them “hold your
shoulders straighter”. Who’s had tread marks cross his back?" -from a Susan Webber song. |
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Rights Demonstration in Cleveland 1964: Police struggle with a woman reacting to the death of campus minister Bruce Klunder, who was deliberately run over by a bulldozer in Cleveland, Ohio, while peacefully protesting the building of yet another segregated high school.
You can read a sermon by a seminary classmate of his here. The dated folksong Treadmarks, by Susan Weber, was about Mr. Klunder.
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I'm on my way (I'm on my way) And I won't turn back! (and I won't turn back!) -Pete Seeger. Civil Rights Era |
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