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While the world watchedCarolyn Maull McKinstry

While the world watched

Carolyn Maull McKinstry, Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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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 rest room 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…

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Editions

6 editions
  • Audiobook · English · 2013
    Oasis Audio · 9781613755549
  • Paperback · English · 2011
    Tyndale · 301 pages · 9781414336374
  • Other · English · 2013
    Oasis Audio · 9781621882862
  • Other · English · 2013
    Turtleback · 301 pages · 9780606351355
  • Other · English · 2011
    Tyndale House Publishers · 301 pages · 9781414336367
  • Other · English · 2011
    Tyndale House Publishers · 9781414352985
Civil rights movementsSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansBiographyHistory