Celebrating Chris McNair: Father, Friend, Husband and Legend
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By Ameera Steward The Birmingham Times Jewell Christopher (Chris) McNair was remembered on Friday as a remarkable man whose love and forgiveness were stronger than one of the most unspeakable tragedies in the city´s history. Mr. McNair´s farewell was held in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, the same place where his daughter, Denise and three other girls were killed in a 1963 bombing. On Friday, clergy, elected officials, family members of the three other girls who died in the bombing, packed the church to say good-bye to Mr. McNair who passed away on May 8 at the age of 93. `If anyone had the right to turn their back on Birmingham, and its checkered history, it was Chris McNair...but even...