A cold night wind chilled the 125 white demonstrators, mostly youngsters whose parents had driven them in from such affluent suburbs as Grosse Pointe and Bloomfield Hills. The rain snuffed out the lighted candles they carried as they marched toward the offices of the Detroit News. At the building, only police were present to hear Sheila Ann Murphy, the 21 -year-old leader of the marchers, read a statement accusing the News of becoming "a diabolical menace because of its racially inflammatory editorials, features and distorted reportings." The Rev. Joseph McHale, a Catholic...
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