File:Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama LCCN2010636939.jpg
Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
Notes: Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer.; Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090).; Forms part of: George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; 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.; Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Library of Congress
- Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2010636939
- Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/highsm/05000/05063a.tif
- Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.05063
Carol M. Highsmith
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Alternative names | Birth name: Carol Louise McKinney Carol McKinney Highsmith | ||
Description | American photographer and architectural photographer | ||
Date of birth | 18 May 1946 | ||
Location of birth | Leaksville, North Carolina | ||
Work period | 1981- | ||
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