and suddenly we realized that a little girl, denise mcnair, a girl that i had known all my life. there's a picture my father giving her her kindergarten certificate. these four little girls had been killed by these terrorists. i remember thinking that people must have a lot of hatred to kill four little girls. and my dad then sat on the porch that entire evening in the september heat with a shotgun on his lap and the next day they organize a neighborhood watch and they went to school with their guns. and they would buy her things into the air. they never actually shot anyone. but they would have if someone had come into the community like that. >> i remember the bombing made headlines and we thought, what kind of country kills little girls. and that was just such a terrible crime. and the way that we have this with the determination to keep the community together because you talk about so many rights and we had to have a lot of allies in the civil rights revolution. and so one of the things that struck me about the book was how you tied together those alliances. there were cross

i saw the shoes, denise mcnair was wearing when she was killed in that bombing.d across the street from the institute and saw where the bomb was placed. at the 16th street baptist church. dr. martin luther king, spoke many times, from the 6th avenue. baptist church pulpit. during the bad times in birmingham. the cub scouts wanted to present me with a check for the fund. kids in need of desks a partnership i created with unicef to provide jobs to workers in malawi. building desks that we then delivered to african schools that have no desks. we had no idea what the 14 boys, ages 6 to 11 had been able to achieve. when we saw what the cub scouts at the 6th avenue baptist church had accomplished in their year of work, on behalf of kids, their age, halfway around the world. sure felt like a miracle to us. >> i will love you, jesus. hallelujah, lord. i love you. more than money. more than -- more than anything. >> good morning. you know i -- i flew down here from my hometown of boston yesterday. i thought just to feel at home i will bring the weather with me. so you are

i saw the shoes denise mcnair was wearing when killed in the bombing.street from the institute and saw where the bomb was placed at the 16th street baptist church. three of the girls funerals were held at the 6th avenue baptist church. the church that invited me to attend their services on sunday morning. dr. martin luther king spoke many times from the sixth avenue baptist church pulpit during the bad times in birmingham. but sunday morning, i was invited to speak there because the cub scouts at the 6th avenue baptist church wanted to present me with a check for the kind fund. kids in need of desks is a partnership with unicef to provide jopz how to workers in malawi, building desks we delivered to african schools that have no desks. the cub scouts at the 6th avenue baptist church wanted to do something big for the kind fund. they worked all year at it and found new ways of raising money every month. when the congregation and i arrived at church sunday morning, we had no idea what these 14 boys, ages 6 to 11 had been able to achieve. but when we saw wh