Last living parent of a child killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama. Maxine's daughter, Denise McNair, died in the bombing alongside Addie Mae Collins, Carole Rosamond Robertson and Cynthia Dionne Wesley. The case went unsolved for years. Three members of the Ku Klux Klan were eventually convicted, the first in 1977 and two more in 2001. The Birmingham church bombing shocked the nation during the fight for the Civil Rights. The four girls between the ages of 11 and 14 became innocent victims and emblems of the racist hatred that animated much of the opposition to equal rights.
Last living parent of a child killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama. Maxine's daughter, Denise McNair, died in the bombing alongside Addie Mae Collins, Carole Rosamond Robertson and Cynthia Dionne Wesley. The case went unsolved for years. Three members of the Ku Klux Klan were eventually convicted, the first in 1977 and two more in 2001. The Birmingham church bombing shocked the nation during the fight for the Civil Rights. The four girls between the ages of 11 and 14 became innocent victims and emblems of the racist hatred that animated much of the opposition to equal rights.
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