Carolyn Maull McKinstry Biography January 13, 1948: Carolyn Maull McKinstry is born in Clanton, Alabama. Parents: Joseph and Earnestine Burt Maull One of 6 children Secretary at 16 th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama Survived the KKK Bombing of the Church on September 15, 1963 Lost her best friend and 3 other friends on that day. Attended and graduated from f Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee. She also did graduate studies at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, and received a Master of Divinity Degree from Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School.

Some of her jobs include management positions with Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company, BellSouth Telecommunications and Andersen Consulting. Her passion is Community service. served as Second Vice President and Program Committee Chair for the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute for the last six years. In addition to numerous other volunteer activities and organizations, has also served as the sole female Chair of the Board of Trustees for Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, past President of the Hospice Foundation of Jefferson County, and past Vice President and Director of Programs for The Academy of Fine Arts, Inc. She also serves on the Boards of The Birmingham Pledge, Alabama Poverty Project and Greater Birmingham Ministries. She serves on the Scholarship Committee for the “Four Girls” administered by the Birmingham News. While the World Watched is her first book and was published in February, 2011 She is married to Jerome McKinstry (January 30, 1968) and they have 2 daughters, Leigh and Joya. She is still an active member of the 16 th Street Baptist Church.

While the World Watched Background and Setting An autobiographical novel about a survivor of the 16 th Street Baptist Church KKK Bombing on September 15, The story begins in Birmingham, Alabama at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Birmingham is known, during this time, as the most segregated city in the South. Many black civil rights, including life and limb, are violated with no repercussions on white perpetrators for the criminal acts.