A highly sought-after speaker, she has appeared on Oprah, 20/20, CNN, and MSNBC, and portions of her story have been featured in Life magazine and USA Today. Now, nearly fifty years after the bombing, Carolyn is still an active member of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, serves as president of the Sixteenth Street Foundation, and works full time spreading her message of racial reconciliation. and bravely faced Bull Connor’s German shepherds and stinging fire hoses during the battle for equal rights in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. The time has come to stop watching and begin healing.” - Carolyn Maull McKinstryĬarolyn Maull McKinstry is a survivor of the Civil Rights struggle and an eyewitness to the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing. One day at a time, one individual at a time, and one act of kindness at a time-we can change the world. Now it is time to prove what love will do. “For many years we have seen the effects of hate on our world.
and the turning point in a young girl’s life.Ĭarolyn’s story is a poignant and gripping eyewitness account of what it was like to grow up in the Jim Crow South-from the bombings, riots, and assassinations to the historic marches and triumphs that characterized the Civil Rights era.Ī unique and moving exploration of how racial relations have evolved over the past five decades, While the World Watched is an incredible testament to how far we’ve come-and how far we have yet to go. It was one of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights movement, a sad day in American history. Fifteen-year-old Carolyn Maull McKinstry was just a few feet away when the Klan-planted bomb that killed four of her friends exploded in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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