![]() The events related in this book are history that many of us lived through, many of us can remember reading in the daily news, and other, younger people have learned through their study of American history. This is a not merely a story of hatred, but also of hope, love and forgiveness. Her name was Carolyn Maull and this book is her story, not just of that precipitous moment in time, but of the era of the Civil Rights movement from the eyes of a young girl living not on the fringes, but dead center of the most violently racist city in the United States at that time. They were in the girl’s restroom where another young girl had been laughing and chatting with them just moments before. ![]() ![]() On Sunday, September 15th, 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, four young girls (Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Cynthia Wesley (14)) lost their lives in the racist bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. ![]()
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