The events in Birmingham, however, compelled McKinstry to deal with reconciliation, which she shares in her book, and has led to becoming an international lecturer on reconciliation. “If it is not confronted, it will destroy us.” “Racism has created a great divide among us and for the most part is unchanged,” she warned. Attendees of a national conference on racial reconciliation at Samford University March 9–10 were told that while there has been some progress, not much has changed since Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was bombed in 1963, killing four young girls.Ĭarolyn Maull McKinstry, author of the book While the World Watched, told of her experiences as a victim of racism, including watching her grandmother die in the basement of a hospital because blacks were not treated there.
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