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 16 drawings |  18 b&w photos |  35 data pages |  2 photo caption pages |
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TITLE:
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, 1530 Sixth Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
CALL NUMBER:
HABS ALA,37-BIRM,33-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 16 (24 x 36 in.)
Photo(s): 18 (5 x 7 in.)
Data Page(s): 34 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.
CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
NOTE:
Survey number HABS AL-898
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N270).
Significance: The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church has served most of this century as the religious and cultural center of Birmingham's African-American community, and now also, as a landmark to Birmingham's Civil Rights District. Built in 1909-11, it was designed by Wallace A. Rayfield, a graduate of Howard University and Pratt Institute, and the first African-American to establish an architectural practice in Birmingham. The church was erected in an eclectic style reminiscent of Byzantine and Romanesque forms by successful African-American contractor Thomas C. Windham. Located downtown near the former center of the African-American business district, Sixteenth Street Church has been known throughout its history as "everybody's church." Many distinguished Americans such as Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson, Marian Anderson, Mary McLeod Bethune and W.E.B. DuBois were heard there. The church began to receive national attention in 1963 when it became the principle site for organizing civil rights demonstrations led by the Reverends Fred Shuttlesworth and Martin Luther King, Jr. The Bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church that killed four young girls attending Sunday School resulted in the national and international condemnation of segregation.
SUBJECTS:
ALABAMA--Jefferson County--Birmingham
Baptist churches
COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.al0966
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. ENVIRONMENTAL VIEW ACROSS KELLY-INGRAM PARK SHOWING CHURCH (RIGHT BACKGROUND) AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE (LEFT BACKGROUND), LOOKING WEST
2. GENERAL PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF SOUTHEAST (FRONT) AND NORTHEAST SIDE FROM KELLY-INGRAM PARK
3. SOUTHEAST (FRONT) TAKEN FROM FRONT OF CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE
4. SOUTHEAST (FRONT) ELEVATION (TAKEN FROM ROOF OF CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE)
5. SOUTHEAST (FRONT) ELEVATION
6. UPPER STORIES OF SOUTHEAST (FRONT) ELEVATION
7. NORTHEAST SIDE ELEVATION
8. INTERIOR VIEW FROM BALCONY LOOKING NORTHWEST TOWARDS SANCTUARY
9. INTERIOR VIEW FROM BALCONY LOOKING NORTHWEST TOWARDS SANCTUARY (CLOSER RANGE)
10. INTERIOR VIEW OF SANCTUARY LOOKING NORTH-NORTHWEST
11. INTERIOR VIEW FROM ALTAR SHOWING NEW BAPTISTERY IN FOREGROUND, LOOKING SOUTH
12. INTERIOR DETAIL OF STAINED-GLASS WINDOW IN BALCONY ALONG NORTHEAST WALL
13. INTERIOR DETAIL OF STAINED-GLASS WALES WINDOW, OBLIQUE VIEW FROM BALCONY, LOOKING SOUTHEAST
14. INTERIOR VIEW OF ROOF TRUSSES IN ATTIC ABOVE SANCTUARY (STAMPED LACKAWANNA STEEL)
15. INTERIOR VIEW OF WOOD FRAMING OF DOME IN ATTIC
16. INTERIOR VIEW OF BASEMENT LOOKING WEST TOWARDS AREA WHERE BOMB EXPLODED IN 1963
17. INTERIOR VIEW OF BASEMENT EXHIBITION OF EVENTS OF CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE 1963 BOMBING OF THE CHURCH, LOOKING SOUTH
18. INTERIOR OF CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE, MILESTONE GALLERY EXHIBITION OF THE SIXTEENTH STREET CHURCH, LOOKING NORTHWEST
CONTROL #:
AL0966
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