Dear Denise : letters to the sister I never knew / Lisa McNair.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNair, Lisa, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McNair, Lisa, 1964-.

McNair, Lisa.

African American women--Alabama--Biography.

African American women.

African Americans--Alabama--Social conditions--20th century.

African Americans.

Alabama--Race relations--History--20th century.

Alabama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University Alabama Press, 2022.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2022]

Summary:

Poignant, honest, and heartfelt letters to a sister who perished in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing Lisa McNair was born in 1964, one year after her older sister, Denise, was murdered in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Letter 1: The Sister I Never Knew

Letter 2: Our Baby Sister

Letter 3: Your Death Left Much Sorrow

Letter 4: What a Difference a Year Makes

Letter 5: Our Lineage Is a Strong One

Letter 6: School Days

Letter 7: Have Mamma and Daddy Gone Crazy?

Letter 8: Not So Bad

Letter 9: Church Life

Letter 10: Thinking White

Letter 11: High School Was Painful

Letter 12: Buried Pain Will Come Up Again

Letter 13: More Messed-Up Thinking

Letter 14: The Year of the Debutante

Letter 15: Bama

Letter 16: Suicidal Thoughts

Letter 17: The Family Business

Letter 18: The Trials

Letter 19: 4 Little Girls

Letter 20: Justice

Letter 21: Tracey

Letter 22: Reconciliation

Letter 23: Church Can Be a Painful Place

Letter 24: White Church

Letter 25: Unlucky at Love

Letter 26: I Was the Wrong Color

Letter 27: Getting Along

Letter 28: What Does It Mean to Be Called a White Girl?

Letter 29: Serving All the People

Letter 30: Daddy's Dilemma

Letter 31: Dogs Have Always Been My Closest Friends

Letter 32: Crazy Stuff People Say

Letter 33: Glory

Letter 34: 9/11

Letter 35: Racial Issues

Letter 36: Our Black Heritage

Letter 37: We Aren't So Different

Letter 38: Daddy Is with You Now

Letter 39: Comfortable in My Own Skin

Letter 40: So Long for Now

The 4 Little Girls Memorial Fund

The Morgan Project

Sojourn into the Past

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: McNair, Lisa Dear Denise

ISBN:

9780817394165

0817394168

OCLC:

1338978842