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- Title
- In memoriam: red vestments for martyrs.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-299923 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)
- Creator Name(s)
- Associated Press. (publisher), Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1963, September 22, 1963, September 22, 1963
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.), St. Dominic’s Church (San Francisco, Calif.)
- Topical Subject(s)
- 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963., Memorial service--California--San Francisco., Bombings--Alabama--Birmingham., Racism--Alabama--Birmingham., Martyrdom.
- Geographic subjects
- California, San Francisco., Alabama, Birmingham., Alabama, Birmingham., San Francisco (Calif.), North and Central America--United States--California--San Francisco--San Francisco
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 99, image no. P-54335; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_PC-29923
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:344314
- Title
- They thought of Birmingham.
- Creator Name(s)
- Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)
- Date Created
- 1963, September 21, 1963, September 21, 1963
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., St. Dominic’s Church (San Francisco, Calif.), Catholic Church--Liturgy.
- Topical Subject(s)
- 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963., Memorial service., Mass.
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29923; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_PC-29923_02
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:357754
- Title
- In memoriam: red vestments for martyrs.
- Description
- 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)
- Creator Name(s)
- Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1963, September 21, 1963, September 21, 1963
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., St. Dominic’s Church (San Francisco, Calif.), Catholic Church--Liturgy.
- Topical Subject(s)
- 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963., Memorial service., Mass.
- Geographic subjects
- San Francisco (Calif.), North and Central America--United States--California--San Francisco--San Francisco
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29923; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_PC-29923
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:358130
