Ceramic plate commemorating the Centennial of the 16th Street Baptist Church
date: label: Date
content: 1973
name: label: Created by
content: Kettlesprings Kilns, American, founded 1950
label: Subject of
content: 16th Street Baptist Church, American, founded 1873
notes: label: Description
content: A commemorative ceramic plate featuring an image of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The plate has a cream colored background with a dark green transfer pattern that depicts the 16th Street Baptist Church in a central roundel. Over the top of the image is text within a banner that reads “1873 Centennial 1973." At the bottom is a banner with text that reads "Sixteenth Street Baptist Church/ Birmingham, Alabama." Around the plate's edge is wide border, also in dark green. The border consists of closely spaced radiating striations under a fruit and floral motif. There are three small roundels placed around the border. One depicts a cross, one an open book, and the bottom depicts a goblet and plate and bread. On the bottom of the plate is text in green that reads "SIXTEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH / Birmingham, Alabama / CENTENNIAL / 1873-1973 / Kettlesprings / Kilns / Alliance, Ohio / 2290-S."
place: label: Place depicted
content: Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Baptist
label: Topic
content: Civil Rights
label: Topic
content: Communities
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Hate crimes
label: Topic
content: Religion
label: Topic
content: Resistance
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Marilynn Syphax in memory of Harriet Irene White
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2017.7
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ceramic and glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 1 × 10 × 10 in. (2.5 × 25.4 × 25.4 cm)