16th Street Baptist Church, American, founded 1873 Search this
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)
Type:
sherds
Place collected:
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
Date:
ca. 1963
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.
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