While the World Watched by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

We still have not learned the simple principle of living next door to someone who may be different from us. “Each of us must examine our lives and our treatment of others if we are going to have even a remote chance of living with the tremendous diversity that exists in our country. “Each of us is accountable for ourselves,” wrote McKinstry in 1963 Church Bombing Survivor: The End of Hatred Starts With You. In 2013, McKinstry authored While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement, an account of the bombings, riots, assignations, and the historic marches and triumphant moments of the Civil Rights movement.

and bravely faced Bull Connor's German shepherds and stinging fire hoses during the battle for equal rights in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. As a teenager, McKinstry marched under Dr. McKinstry is a survivor and eyewitness to the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963. in the Great Hall on the campus of Southern Utah University. Events on Thursday, February 6 at 11:30 a.m. Events is proud to continue the spring season by sharing the life of Carolyn Maull McKinstry and her voice in the Civil Rights Movement. Events Presents Carolyn McKinstry, Civil Rights ActivistĪ.P.E.X. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2.Ĭarolyn McKinstry talked about surviving the September 15, 1963, bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.A.P.E.X. Working with the Bright House Networks local cable affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2011 LCV Cities Tour” in Birmingham, Alabama, on October 31-November 4 to feature the history and literary life of the community. She was interviewed outside the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. She lost four of her friends in the bombing that became a turning point in the civil rights movement as profiled in her book, While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement.

T13:21:08-05:00 Carolyn McKinstry talked about surviving the September 15, 1963, bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

While the World Watched by Carolyn Maull McKinstry