Resources by Carolyn McKinstry

While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement

by Denise George and Carolyn McKinstry

On September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was just a few feet away when the bomb exploded, killing four of her friends in the girl’s restroom she had just exited. It was one of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights movement, a sad day in American history .… Read more…