Boys carrying casket at a funeral for victims of 16th Street Church bombing
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- Created Date
- 1963
- Description
Mourners watch as group of young pallbearers carry a casket towards a hearse at a funeral for victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. The September 15, 1963 bombing killed four young African American girls.
- Creator
Haun, Declan, 1937-1994 (photographer)
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.)
African American
Funerals
Civil rights
Racial discrimination
Mourners - Location
- Birmingham (Ala.)
- Type
- image
- Format
- Black-and-white negatives
- Rights
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2014, all rights reserved.
- Chicago citation style
- Haun, Declan, 1937-1994 (photographer). Boys carrying casket at a funeral for victims of 16th Street Church bombing. 1963. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/1055. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Haun, Declan, 1937-1994 (photographer), (1963) Boys carrying casket at a funeral for victims of 16th Street Church bombing. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/1055
- MLA citation style
- Haun, Declan, 1937-1994 (photographer). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/1055>.