The town had another, darker nickname – Bombingham, so called because of the huge number of bombs that were deployed by leaders of the Ku Klux Klan in order to maintain the strict lines of segregation in the city. The memoir begins with a portrait of Birmingham, Alabama – a city called, at once, the Pittsburgh of the South, the Magic City, and the most segregated city in the United States of America. The memoir recalls this catastrophic event, and the life-long impact it had on Maull McKinstry as she watched a series of assassinations, protests, and other acts of violence and victory during the tumultuous Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
In her memoir, While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement, Carolyn Maull McKinstry discusses her experience as the only survivor of the five young girls who were present when a bomb placed in a bathroom in a Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama exploded in 1963.
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