In a new book, Lisa McNair shares how her family endured and reckoned with racism after her 11-year-old sister was killed in the Birmingham church bombing.
McNair points to where Klansmen planted dynamite under a stairwell before Youth Sunday. She says the girls were freshening up between Sunday School and the worship service when the bomb detonated.
The crime drew worldwide attention to the violent resistance to equal rights in the American South, and galvanized support for the Civil Rights Act. McNair didn't hear that historic eulogy. And she never met her sister Denise. Lisa was born a year after the bombing, her family still grieving.imagines what it would have been like to have a relationship with her big sister.
She always wanted to write a book about growing up in the shadow of the bombing but didn't know where to start
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