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ORIG.COLOR 1200 SOF.MAG. CUT STORY: MS COFFIN CONTAINING BODY OF PFC. BILL TERRY EXHUMED FROM BLACK CEMETERY. SHOT OF TERRY FAMILY ENTERING CHURCH. SHOT OF CONGREGATION IN CHURCH. MS PASTOR GIVES SERVICES FOR TERRY. VS FLAGDRAPED COFFIN CARRIED BY SOLDIERS TO WHITE CEMETERY. VS SOLDIERS FIRE SALUTE. FARMER SU. MORE VS OF TERRYS COFFIN BEING TAKEN OUT OF GRAVE IN BLACK CEMETERY. INTV WITH TERRYS MOTHER. VS COFFIN TAKEN INTO CHURCH. FAMILY AND FRIENDS FOLLOW. MORE OF PASTOR GIVING SERVICE. CU FACES OF CONGREGATION. VS OF THE CONGREGATION DURING SERVICES. CU MRS. TERRY AND DAUGHTER. VS FUNERAL PROCESSION OF BLACKS THRU STREETS OF BIRMINGHAM. MS SIGN ON CEMETERY, ELMWOOD. VS PROCESSION LED BY PALL BEARERS CARRYING FLAG DRAPED COFFIN REACHES GRAVESITE. CORPORAL WILLIAM TERRY, JR. WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN INTERRED IN ELMWOOD CEMETERY. HIS DEATH LED TO THE INTEGRATION OF BIRMINGHAM'S ELMWOOD CEMETERY. BILL TERRY JR. DIED ON JULY 3, 1969 WHILE SERVING IN VIETNAM. TERRY ASKED TO BE BURIED IN ELMWOOD CEMETERY BECAUSE IT WAS CLOSE TO HIS FAMILY'S TITUSVILLE HOME. AFTER THE PRIVATELY-OWNED CEMETERY REFUSED THE FAMILY'S REQUEST TO BURY HIM THERE BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK, TERRY'S MOTHER AND WIFE FILED A LAWSUIT IN FEDERAL COURT. THE COURT RULED IN THE FAMILY'S FAVOR, AND TERRY'S BODY WAS MOVED FROM SHADOW LAWN CEMETERY ON JAN. 3, 1970. CI: WAR: VIETNAM: CASUALTIES. CIVIL RIGHTS: ALA. , BIRMINGHAM. FUNERALS: TERRY, BILL. PERSONALITIES: TERRY, BILL.