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English: Title: Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama

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.
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Carol M. Highsmith  (1946–)  wikidata:Q5044454
 
Carol M. Highsmith
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Birth name: Carol Louise McKinney

Artist name: Carol M. Highsmith
Carol McKinney Highsmith
Description American photographer and architectural photographer
Date of birth 18 May 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Leaksville, North Carolina
Work period 1981-
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