SOLEDAD: A NEW EXHIBIT AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART IN WASHINGTON, D.C. IS SHINING A LIGHT ON A DEADLY DAY IN AMERICA'S PAST.
THE 1963 CHURCH BOMBING IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.
IT WAS A SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15, JUST TWO WEEKS AFTER DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING'S HISTORIC MARCH ON WASHINGTON.
FOUR YOUNG BLACK GIRLS WERE GETTING READY FOR SUNDAY SERVICE AT THE 16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH WHEN A BOMB EXPLODED.
11-YEAR OLD CAROL DENISE MCNAIR, 14-YEAR-OLDS ADDIE MAE COLLINS, CYNTHIA WESLEY, AND CAROLE ROBERTSON DIED, AND A FIFTH GIRL WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
THAT SAME DAY, TWO TEENAGED BOYS WERE MURDERED IN RACIALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE.
NOW, PHOTOGRAPHER DAWOUD BEY, IS HONORING THE VICTIMS WITH HIS SERIES, "THE BIRMINGHAM PROJECT." SO NICE TO HAVE YOU.
DAWOUD: THANKS FOR HAVING ME.
SOLEDAD: TELL ME WHAT FIRST BROUGHT YOUR ATTENTION TO BIRMINGHAM.
DAWOUD: WELL, IT WAS 1964.
A BOOK WAS PUBLISHED CALLED THE MOVEMENT.
IT WAS A BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF AND ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
MY PARENTS BROUGHT THIS BOOK HOME AND LEFT IT SOMEPLACE I COULD SEE IT.
THEY DIDN'T TALK A LOT ABOUT IT.
I PICKED IT UP ND STARTED LOOKING THROUGH.
THERE WERE A LOT OF HORRIFIC PHOTOGRAPHS IN THAT BOOK INCLUDING A PHOTOGRAPH OF TH OLDER SISTER SARAH JEAN COLLINS -- THE OLDER SISTER ABADIE MAE COLLINS, ONE OF THE GIRLS WHO
HAD BEEN KILLED AND SHE WAS LAYING IN A HOSPITAL BED COVERED IN BIG BANDAGES.
AND SOMETHING ABOUT THAT PHOTOGRAPH JUST SEARED ITSELF INTO MY PSYCHE.
SOLEDAD: WHAT YOU'VE COME UP WITH IS AMAZING AND REMARKABLE.
AND IT IS, I GUE A DIPTYQUE, TWO PHOTOS NEXT TO EACH OTHE AND YOU SAID THAT YOU DON'T THINK OF PEOPLE IN YOUR PHOT AS JUST YOUR SUBJECTS, BUT THEY ARE YOUR COLLABORATORS AS WELL.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
DAWOUD: WELL IN THIS CASE THE STRUCTURE OF THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS MY ATTEMPT TO ANSWER T QUESTION OF HOW DOES ONE VISUALIZE THE PAST.
AND SO WHAT I DECIDED TO DO WAS TO MAKE PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOUNG GIRLS, YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICAN GIRLS, WHO ARE THE SAME AGES THAT THOSE YOUNG GIRLS WERE AT THE TIME THAT THEY WERE
MURDERED.
AND THEN BY PAIRING THESE PHOTOGRAPHS OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN BIRMINGHAM NOW WHO ARE TH AGES THAT THEY WERE AND THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN, I THAT CONCEPTUALLY THAT COULD MAKE
THOSE 50 VISIBLE AND RESONANT IN THE WORK.
SOLEDAD: I'D LOVE TO WALK THROUGH SOME OF THE PHOTOS THIS IS MY FAVORITE SET, AND I DON'T KNOW WHY.
I FEEL LIKE THIS GIRL COULD GROW INTO THIS WOMAN.
DAWOUD: THAT IS KIND OF THE IMPLICATION OF IT OR THE SUGGESTION OF IT.
SOLEDAD: OFTEN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE CHURCH BOMBING, THE STORIES OF THE BOYS ARE LEFT OUT ALTOGETHER.
I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THEM AT ALL.
HERE'S ONE OF YOUR DIPTYQUES.
DAWOUD: I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE TWO BOYS UNTIL I STARTED DOING RESEARCH IN BIRMINGHAM MYSELF.
PEOPLE IN ALABAMA, PEOPLE IN BIRMINGHAM, THEY KNOW ABOUT THOSE TWO BOYS.
BUT OUTSIDE OF ALABAMA AND OUTSIDE OF THE SOUTH WHAT MOST PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THAT MOMENT IS MORE THE MYTHIC HISTORY THAN THE ACTUAL HISTORY.
SOLEDAD: YOU BEGAN WORKING ON THIS PROJECT AS TRAYVON MARTIN WAS KILLED.
DAWOUD: YES, AT THE VERY MOMENT THAT I WAS MAKING THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS, TRAYVON MARTIN WAS KILLED.
SO, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT, AND THE WAY THOSE TWO THINGS KIND OF COLLAPSED INTO ONE ANOTHER AT THAT MOMENT WAS CERTAINLY NOT LOST TO ME.
THIS IS NOT A MOMENT THAT RESIDES COMFORTABLY IN THE PAST, BUT IS SENT TO SAY, WITH US RIGHT NOW.
SOLEDAD: SOLEDAD: DAWOUD BEY, ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SEE THIS
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