While the World Watched by Carolyn Maull McKinstry is not only the story of 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama but even more so it's a autobiography of a young girl coming of age in a time of racial unrest (and that word is an understatement)in the South.
While the World Watched was not only informative in giving me insight into a time of which I knew little but it was also thought provoking and heart wrenching to hear about Carolyn's life. I cried with her as her friends died and I rejoiced with her in her forgiveness of the murderers.
Overall this book is excellent and should be on high school readings lists for those studying the Civil Rights Movement. I will be sharing this book with my own teens.
Tyndale House Publishers provided me with a complimentary copy of While the World Watched.
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