- On View
- Segregation Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- 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.




