About this image...

Image Title: Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, 2010

Creator: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer

Date: 2010 February 25.

Notes: The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was organized in 1873 as the First Colored Baptist Church of Birmingham. In 1880, the church came to this site on 16th Street and 6th Avenue North. During the Civil Rights Movement the church served as an organizational headquarters. On Sunday, September 15, 1963 members of the Ku Klux Klan planted 19 sticks of dynamite outside the church basement. The explosion killed 4 young girls and injured 22 others.

Subjects: 16th Street Baptist Church
America
Civil rights
United States--Alabama--Birmingham

Original Media: Photograph

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