PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — When Carolyn McKinstry hears that young survivors of a mass shooting like last month’s in Connecticut are receiving counseling, she can speak to its value through her own experience — or lack of it.

McKinstry was 15 years old when she survived the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., where four girls were killed. It was a key moment in the civil rights movement.