On View
Segregation Gallery
Exhibition
Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968
Created by
Unidentified
Used by
16th Street Baptist Church, American, founded 1873
Date
ca. 1963
Medium
glass, lead
Dimensions
H x W x D (2013.138a): 6 × 5 1/2 × 1/4 in. (15.2 × 14 × 0.6 cm)
H x W x D (2013.138b): 7 1/4 × 6 × 1 1/16 in. (18.4 × 15.2 × 2.7 cm)
H x W x D (2013.138c): 3 × 1 1/2 × 5/16 in. (7.6 × 3.8 × 0.8 cm)
Description
A stained glass rosette shaped shard (a) from the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The piece consists a cream diamond-shaped center, surrounded by rings of blue, ochre, and purple colored glass within a lead frame. Two pieces of the lead frame (b, c) are not connected to the rosette shaped stained glass and most of the top right segment of the ochre colored glass is missing.
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
Race relations
Violence
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Family of Rev. Norman C. "Jim" Jimerson and Melva Brooks Jimerson
Object number
2013.138abc
Restrictions & Rights
No Known Copyright Restrictions
Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd54ba3bb41-45a7-4561-94ff-eb397adf9685

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