Ten shards of stained glass
- On View
- Segregation Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- 16th Street Baptist Church, American, founded 1873
- Date
- September 1963
- Medium
- stained glass
- Dimensions
- H x W: 3 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. (9.2 x 3.2 cm)
- Caption
- Just two weeks after the march, on September 15, 1963, white supremacists planted a bomb under the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The explosion killed four young girls attending Sunday school. This terrorist act was a brutal reminder that the success of the march and the changes it represented would not go unchallenged. In the face of such violence, the determination to continue organizing intensified. These glass shards are from the church's stained-glass window.
- Description
- A collection of glass shards collected from the gutter outside the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, at the funeral of the four girls killed in the bombing.
- Place collected
- Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Sacred and Ceremonial Objects
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Type
- sherds
- Topic
- Baptist
- Civil rights
- Hate crimes
- The Black Church
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Violence
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Trumpauer-Mulholland Collection
- Object number
- 2010.71.1.1-.10
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.