FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2013 file photo, Wells Church pastor Rev. Keith Tonkel participates in a discussion about the challenges Mississippi's capital city faces in Jackson. Tonkel, one of 28 white United Methodist ministers who signed a statement condemning segregation and racism in the Deep South in 1963, has died. Wells United Methodist Church, where he had been pastor since 1969, announced that Tonkel died Wednesday, March 8, 2017 in Jackson, where he had been hospitalized for pneumonia and blood clots in his lungs. He was 81. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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