- Sister of Lisa McNair.
- Daughter of Chris McNair and Maxine McNair.
- Niece of Harold McNair and Helen Pegues.
- She helped to raise money for muscular dystrophy by putting on plays, dance routines, and poetry readings, which became an annual event in her neighborhood.
- She was a member of The Brownies.
- She was a student at Center Street Elementary School where one her friends was Condoleezza Rice.
- She is most famous in history for the circumstances of her death. On September 13, 1963, she and three other girls, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson were in the basement of The 16th Street Baptist Church preparing for their youth service when sixteen sticks of dynamite (planted under a stairwell) blew up and the four girls were killed. This tragedy is credited as the event that awakened America to the severity of racial hatred in the south that was preventing integration. The murders went unsolved for more than a decade until in 1977 Robert "Dynamite Bob" Chambliss was convicted of the murders.
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