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While the World Watched
A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement
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While the World Watched
A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement
About this book
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 . . . and the turning point in a young girl's life.
While the World Watched is a poignant and gripping eyewitness account of life in the Jim Crow South: from the bombings, riots, and assassinations to the historic marches and triumphs that characterized the Civil Rights movement.
A uniquely moving exploration of how racial relations have evolved over the past 5 decades, While the World Watched is an incredible testament to how far we've come and how far we have yet to go.
While the World Watched is a poignant and gripping eyewitness account of life in the Jim Crow South: from the bombings, riots, and assassinations to the historic marches and triumphs that characterized the Civil Rights movement.
A uniquely moving exploration of how racial relations have evolved over the past 5 decades, While the World Watched is an incredible testament to how far we've come and how far we have yet to go.
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Table of contents
- Cover Image
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Civil Rights Movement . . . Through the Eyes of Carolyn Maull McKinstry
- Chapter 1: Too Great a Burden to Bear
- Chapter 2: Halfway In and Halfway Out
- Chapter 3: The Strong One
- Chapter 4: The Bomb Heard âRound the World
- Chapter 5: Life Is But a Vapor
- Chapter 6: Four Little Coffins
- Chapter 7: The Aftermath
- Chapter 8: The World Was Silent
- Chapter 9: âItâs Time!â
- Chapter 10: D-day
- Chapter 11: Double D-day
- Chapter 12: The Most Dangerous Racist in America
- Chapter 13: The Battle Continues
- Chapter 14: Servant, Heal Thyself
- Chapter 15: Bombingham
- Chapter 16: Will the Violence Ever End?
- Chapter 17: The Deaths of the Dreamers
- Chapter 18: Je-Romeo
- Chapter 19: Turning Points
- Chapter 20: The First Arrest
- Chapter 21: Back to Birmingham
- Chapter 22: The Calling
- Chapter 23: The Cherry Trial
- Photo Insert
- Epilogue
- Sample Jim Crow Laws
- Letter from Barack Obama
- Notes