![]() ![]() ![]() The text of speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. Her tale of surviving the bombing, which killed four of her friends on September 15, 1963, vividly describes the force of water from fire hoses that left a hole in her sweater the ominous call moments before the bomb exploded and the clouds that formed in her mental sky when she realized that the childhood innocence her parents had relied on to shield her from racism was gone. ![]() In a more personal account, McKinstry, a survivor of the Ku Klux Klan bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., offers the rare perspective of both a child and an eyewitness to some of the most jarring aspects of blacks' fight for civil rights. The nation's collective memory of the civil rights movement depends largely on journalists and biographers who witnessed the snarling dogs and brutal racist tactics used to enforce and defend segregation in the South. ![]()
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