Funeral for bombing victim's dad in church where she died
Source: Associated Press
Jay Reeves, Associated Press Updated 9:53 am CDT, Friday, May 10, 2019
Photo: Hal Yeager, AP
FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2013, file photo, Chris and Maxine McNair, the parents of of Denise McNair, watch as the sculpture is revealed at the unveiling ceremony for "The Four Little Girls," a sculpture memorial honoring Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley in Birmingham, Ala. Chris McNair, the father of one of four young girls killed in the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church, died Wednesday, May 8, 2019. He was 93.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The funeral for one of the first black members of the Alabama Legislature will be held in the same church where his daughter died in a racist bombing in 1963, his family said Friday.
A service for Chris McNair will be held May 17 at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. McNair's daughter, 11-year-old Denise McNair, was among four black girls killed when Ku Klux Klansmen bombed the church on Sept. 15, 1963.
Lisa McNair, a surviving daughter, said her father planned his funeral and wanted it held at the church even though he wasn't a member.
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McNair became one of the first African-American members of Alabama's Legislature since Reconstruction when he was elected in 1973. He died Wednesday at age 93.
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Bless you for posting it.
In memory of those four angels.
