By: Cheryl Wittenauer, Associated Press
ST. LOUIS - (AP) Throngs of ministers, Black Panthers and other black men hungry for change marched through a historically black St. Louis neighborhood Sunday to protest violence, with women cheering them from the sidelines.
Crowds that organizers estimated at 50,000 walked to Tandy Park, across from Sumner High School, the first black high school west of the Mississippi River. It was there that one of Sumner's famous graduates, the late Arthur Ashe, honed his tennis skills.
"There is no better time than now to pick up the little brother," said Sheldon Scott, 51, of suburban Jennings. "We are letting our children get away from us."
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