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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/26/18/43/bZu9F.St.138.jpeg|525A window to a front bedroom was blown out at the Julius L. Chambers home by a dynamite blast on Nov. 22, 1965. The dynamite apparently hit the wall below the window and fell to the ground. Damage was minor. Chambers and his wife were sleeping in the back bedroom.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/26/18/43/xfE8K.St.138.jpeg|525Charlotte civil rights attorney Julius Chambers, in a file photo from July 27, 1966.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/26/18/43/iCVg3.St.138.jpeg|413On the night of Nov. 22, 1965, a bomb exploded outside the Dr. Reginald A. Hawkin' home. Windows in the family room of the home were blasted out by the charge, which landed in the trees at the rear of the house. There was minor damage to the house. The dynamite apparently was thrown from a car on the street beside the house. No one was ever arrested for the crime.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/26/18/43/RWNMJ.St.138.jpeg|525The Nov. 22, 1965, bombings of civil rights leaders' homes in Charlotte blew out the family room windows at the home of Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins' home. The charge, which landed in the trees at the rear of the house.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/26/18/43/sN7mY.St.138.jpeg|525The home of Dr. Reginald Hawkins was bombed early on the morning of Nov. 22, 1965, one of four houses bombed in Charlotte. OBSERVER FILE PHOTO
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/26/18/43/1j7nLv.St.138.jpeg|410On Nov. 22, 1965, a bomb explodes in Kelly Alexander Jr.'s bedroom and at the homes of three other Charlotte civil rights activists. The victims are the families of Julius Chambers, Reginald Hawkins, Fred Alexander and his brother, Kelly Alexander, Sr. Miraculously, no one is killed. No one has been arrested for the crimes.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/26/18/43/1u3iuB.St.138.jpeg|410Police scan the front lawn of the Fred Alexander home (left). The front door was blasted away, windows shattered and the roof overhang damaged by a dynamite blast on this night 11/22/1965. The dynamite was apparently placed on the front porch. Miraculously, no one was killed.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/26/18/43/7cXgk.St.138.jpeg|525Police scan the front lawn of the Fred Alexander home. The front door, which was blasted away, is in the background. Windows were shattered and the roof overhang damaged by a dynamite blast on Nov. 22, 1965. The dynamite was apparently placed on the front porch. Miraculously, no one was killed.
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2013/02/26/18/43/1kz0Bh.St.138.jpeg|442Kelly Alexander Sr., right, and his son Kelly Alexander Jr., in a 1983 file photo. Both men's houses were targeted in bombings in Charlotte in 1965. No one has ever been arrested.
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