I can say I am furious that someone B10’s age can become a victim in a unholy battle. I cannot say I am ashamed, because I don’t take on the guilt of what happened simply because of my skin colour. I am quite sure that my emotions are naught compared to the thoughts of a 15 year old girl who watched her church – the only safe haven she had – become a battlefield. McKinstry meant for the reader to have anger or sadness when reading the book. Which is why she lived when the bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan exploded at 10:22 am. She realized as she stood in the doorway of the Girl’s Restroom, chatting with her best friends, that she would be late to the office if she didn’t hurry off. Carolyn Maull McKinstry was in charge of collecting the Sunday School reports and writing the Sunday School Summary to be announced during church. In 1963, at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church – it was Youth Sunday.
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