Carol Denise McNair (1951 - 1963)

Born 17 Nov 1951 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States of America

Ancestors

Died 15 Sep 1963 at age 11 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States of America

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Biography

Denise McNair was born in Alabama.

Denise McNair is Notable.

Denise McNair died young.

Denise was the only child of Chris McNair and Maxine Pippen at the time of her death, later she would have two sisters that she would never know.

Denise was involved in normal childhood endeavors, her Mother was a teacher, her father was a photographer, they were college-educated, hard-working, financially comfortable and she was their only child at the time.

Denise, Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Cynthia Wesley (14) were in the basement of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham and as they readied themselves for church that morning they never imagined that the remembrance of them would become one of the inspirations for the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham and forever remembered by the horror of what happened to them and their families on September 15, 1963.^[1]

The 16th Street Baptist Church was used as a meeting space for the civil rights movement. The church was repaired and still stands today in recognition of its place in "The Civil Rights Movement"

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing

• Photo of Denise Pickens McNair, The Greene & Pickens Black Families Association, archived at the Wayback Machine but photos no longer load.

• https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-004&hsimp=yhs-004&hspart=mozilla&p=denise+mcnair#action=view&id=5&vid=84cc09dd05a280ace25524aae82a06be

• http://www.bcri.org/

• Biography, Denise McNair, archived at Wayback Machine

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing#Bombing

• https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-004&hsimp=yhs-004

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/four-little-girls-honored-with-congressional-gold-medal/2013/05/24/91e8d896-c481-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?utm_term=.261b1227c148

• Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 20 October 2019), memorial page for Carol Denise McNair (17 Nov 1951–15 Sep 1963), Find A Grave: Memorial #6433280, citing Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Find A Grave.

• McNair, Lisa. Dear Denise: Letters to the Sister I Never Knew. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2022.

• https://www.al.com/life/2022/09/sister-of-girl-killed-in-the-1963-church-bombing-shares-her-story-in-dear-denise.html