Ten shards of stained glass
date: label: Date
content: September 1963
name: label: Created by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: 16th Street Baptist Church, American, founded 1873
notes: label: Caption
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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: label: Place collected
content: Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Baptist
label: Topic
content: Civil Rights
label: Topic
content: Hate crimes
label: Topic
content: The Black Church
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1961-1969
label: Topic
content: Violence
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Sacred and Ceremonial Objects
label: Movement
content: Civil Rights Movement
label: Exhibition
content: Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968
label: On View
content: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Concourse 2, C 2053
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Trumpauer-Mulholland Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2010.71.1.1-.10
objectType: label: Type
content: sherds
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: stained glass
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 3 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. (9.2 x 3.2 cm)