Last parent of a child killed in the Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church bombing dies at 93
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By Devon M. Sayers, CNN The last living parent of one of the four children killed in the terrorist bombing of an African American church in 1963 has died at 93. Maxine McNair died on Sunday, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said.
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By Devon M. Sayers, CNN The last living parent of one of the four children killed in the terrorist bombing of an African American church in 1963 has died at 93. Maxine McNair died on Sunday, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said.
McNair’s daughter, 11-year-old Denise McNair, was the youngest girl killed in the bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church, the deadliest single attack of the civil rights movement.