Civil Rights Champion Becomes Ambassador for Love and Hope

Authors

Office of University Communications

Files

Description

Gardner-Webb University devotes a January Dimensions program each year to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy of love and reconciliation. That legacy was, perhaps, never better honored at Gardner-Webb than this month, when Carolyn McKinstry, a native of Birgmingham, Ala., and a veteran of that city’s tumultuous Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, shared her testimony with the Gardner-Webb student body. A lifelong member of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, McKinstry was present on Sept. 15, 1963, when white racists bombed the Church, killing four of her friends.

Youtube: MLK Dimensions with Carolyn McKinstry

Publication Date

1-17-2012

Publisher

Gardner-Webb University

City

Boiling Springs

Keywords

BBC, Birmingham Alabama, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Board of Directors of the Sixteenth Street Foundation Inc., Carolyn McKinstry, Civil Rights, CNN, Dimensions, Discovery Channel, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., History Channel, Life Magazine, MSNBC, Oprah Winfrey Show, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

Recommended Citation

Office of University Communications, "Civil Rights Champion Becomes Ambassador for Love and Hope" (2012). Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive. 1959.
https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gardner-webb-newscenter-archive/1959