Text transcribed from caption: PC-29923 IN MEMORIAM: RED VESTMENTS FOR MARTYRS SAN FRANCISCO -- Typical of hundreds of churches across the United States was this scene in San Francisco. On Sunday, Sept. 22, the nation’s churchgoers joined in memorial services for four Negro girls who died when a bomb blasted a Negro Baptist church in Birmingham. Here, at St. Dominic’s Roman Catholic church, the more than 2,500 attending services overflowed the building. They fell to their knees on the sidewalk during a Mass offered for the dead children. The priest wore vestments in the “red of martyrdom” instead of the black of mourning. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-9D-63-W)

Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)

1963
September 21, 1963

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 7 x 8 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
St. Dominic’s Church (San Francisco, Calif.)
Catholic Church--Liturgy.

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963.
Memorial service.
Mass.

San Francisco (Calif.)
North and Central America--United States--California--San Francisco--San Francisco

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29923; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_PC-29923

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