Chris McNair, American, 1925 - 2019
Paddy Wagon
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
African American churches became centers for the civil rights movement in Birmingham in 1963. Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was one of several gathering points for civil rights demonstrators advancing the […]
Dr. Martin Luther King holding a press conference following his release from the Birmingham city jail, where he wrote “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” on April 16, 1963
Taken by Birmingham photographer Chris McNair, father of Denise McNair—one of the four girls killed when members of the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church on September […]