16th Street Baptist Church

The Baptist Church in Alabama is a symbolic and historical church. The church was used as a meeting place for civil rights activists; that is often where meetings would be held. On September 15, 1963 a group of people bombed the church and killed 4 girls. It only cause exterior damage to the church; people from Wales helped with the finances and building that wall back to how it was.

The only stained glass that was not shattered by the bomb was the picture of Jesus, but it was damaged; Jesus' face was knock out. That was amazing to me because only the middle of the glass broke but the rest of the window was fine. The people from Wales wanted to donate a window to the church. The window is of a black man with

one hand pushing away and the other open. This symbolizes him pushing away oppression and asking for forgiveness. People often mistake it as a black Jesus but it is just an ordinary man from the time period of the civil rights movement.