What led Carolyn to leave her young friends mere minutes before the bombing.While the World Watched 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. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., presents While the World Watched by Carolyn Maull McKinstry with Denise George (ISBN: 978-1-4143-3637-4 Softcover 5 ½ x 8 ¼ Biography & Autobiography/Memoir 300 pages $14.99), in observance of the 50 th Anniversary of the Ku Klux Klan bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963. 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.
–Fifteen-year-old Carolyn McKinstry was just a few feet away when the Klan-planted bomb that killed four of her friends exploded in Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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