Mamie H. Grier was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She moved to Birmingham and became a program specialist
for the Birmingham Board of Education. She was a member of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and was present
at the bombing on September 15, 1963. She was superintendent of the Sunday school and may have been the last
person to see the four girls (Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie May Collins) alive.
Her husband was injured in the bombing, and she went to the hospital with him. There, she witnessed the
multitude who were dead and injured from the bombing.
In her narrative, Mamie Grier discusses the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and its aftermath.
Recorded in Birmingham on November 19, 1975, as part of the University of Alabama in Birmingham Oral History
Research Project.
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