Provenance

Leo Bauby, Chicago; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in red ink: Blacks- [illegible] - segregation - viole [crossed out] / violence; upper center in graphite: CHURCH; upper center stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: 2 SEP 16 1963 S; upper center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: Associated Press / STAINED GLASS WINDOW OF CHURCH SHATTERED / Sixteenth Street Baptist Church heavily damaged; by unknown hand, center illegible printing notes; center right: [obscured] Mon Star; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- (AP) / -- Against a background of / violence and death, a special / federal grand jury was or- / dered today to investigate / racial outbreaks that con- / tinue to plague this city. / U. S. District judge Clar- / ence W. Allgood, in his / charge to the grand jury, em- / phasized the dynamite explo- / sion at a Negro church Sun- / day which killed four childre[n] / and injured 23 other persons. / Calm prevailed in Birming- / ham today, especially around / the curch [sic] and the tree [sic] re- / cently desegregated schools. / There was no report of / [arrow] violence. / FBI agents and bomb ex- / perts conducted an exhaus- / tive search for clues. Three / hundred state troopers and / 500 National Guardsmen re- / mained on alert.; lower center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink partially visible