Torn+Little+Girl's+Dress+from+the+Sixteenth+Street+Baptist+Church

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=I. Artifact Name= Torn Little Girl's Dress from the 16th St. Baptist Church

=II. Description of the Artifact and It's Significance= The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham was used as a meeting-place for civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Ralph David Abernathy and Fred Shutterworth. Tensions became high when the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) became involved in a campaign to register African American to vote in Birmingham. On Sunday, 15th September, 1963, a white man was seen getting out of a white and turquoise Chevrolet car and placing a box under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Soon afterwards, at 10.22 a.m., the bomb exploded killing Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Cynthia Wesley (14). The four girls had been attending Sunday school classes at the church. Twenty-three other people were also hurt by the blast.

=III. Date and Place= //(Enter your information here and on the Timeline!)// //September 15th, 1963// //16th St Baptist Church// //Birmingham, Alabama//

=IV. Related Multimedia Found on the Internet= @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI9EXuTNB2o&feature=youtube_gdata_player News footage from 1963 of the actual bombing. //(Include at least two links for your multimedia. Explain what each link is and how it relates to the artifact)//

=V. Curators (First Name, Last Initial)= Carl L Ray H Bev S