Last year, Lisa McNair made a powerful statement at Alabama’s state legislature in Montgomery, driving all the way from her home in Birmingham. She was there to discuss the “divisive concepts” legislation proposed by state Republicans that aimed to limit how educators could teach about race and racism. McNair opposed the bill because she believed it would distort the true history of America and her own family’s tragic experience.
When McNair took the microphone, she held up a picture of her sister and expressed her disinterest in the term “CRT” or critical race theory, which Republicans have used to condemn any education about race. McNair emphasized that her sister’s story was part of true history and needed to be taught.
Sixty years ago, on September 15, 1963, McNair’s sister, Carol Denise McNair, was one of four Black girls killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. This devastating act of violence ignited outrage across the nation and fueled the Civil Rights Movement.
McNair recounted how state Senator Jabo Waggoner, one of the Republican co-sponsors of the bill, was moved to tears after hearing her testimony. She even gave him a T-shirt with Denise’s face on it. Despite this emotional encounter, Waggoner continued to support the legislation in its subsequent attempts.
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