While the world watched chapter 7 summary
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woke up on Sunday morning, September 15, 1963,
and looked out my bedroom window. The sky was slightly
overcast, but the sun was trying hard to shine through
the clouds. It was a warm, beautiful September day in
Birmingham, Alabama—an ordinary busy Sunday morning
at the Maull home.
I laid out my white Sunday dress. I had starched and
ironed it before I went to bed the night before. At age four-
teen, I didn’t own a lot of clothes because there were six
children to clothe in our household. But I had several special
church dresses and one pair of black patent leather shoes I
saved just for Sunday church.
Today was Youth Sunday at Sixteenth Street Baptist
Church. On the fourth Sunday of each month, Reverend
John H. Cross asked the church’s youth to lead the service,
teach the Sunday school classes, and take over jobs the adult
members usually did. It proved an exciting day for us each
month. The boys wore dark pants and white shirts on those
Sundays, and the girls wore their prettiest white dresses.
I had been an active member of Sixteenth Street Baptist
Church in Birmingham, Alabama, for as far back as I could
remember. In 1950, when I was two years old, my parents
registered me in the cradle-roll Sunday school class. My
church served as the center of my life. I worshiped there. I
socialized there. I even worked there part-time as a church
secretary. Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was the first black
church built in Birmingham. Since its construction in 1911,
the church had become a worship home
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