Racist Dogs Sculpture
Birmingham, Alabama
This dramatic and disturbing sculpture is in Kelly Ingram Park, north of the Baptist church where a KKK bomb killed four young African-American girls in 1963. Artist James Drake's 1992 work depicts snarling police dogs leaping inward from two parallel walls. Visitors can stand between and try to imagine the terror, when civil rights marchers were assaulted with water cannon and the canines.
Also in the park are statues of an African American boy and girl behind bars, another memorial to the period in history when the city was known as "Bombingham."
Racist Dogs Sculpture
- Address:
- 520 16th St N, Birmingham, AL [Show Map]
- Directions:
- At the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. 16th Street N to 17th Street N and Fifth Ave N to Sixth Ave N.
- Phone:
- 205-328-9696
Nearby Offbeat Places
- Satanic "Storyteller" Fountain, Birmingham, AL - 1 mi.
- Vulcan the Iron Man, Birmingham, AL - 2 mi.
- Stan the Muffler Man, Birmingham, AL - 3 mi.
- In the region: Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman, AL - 46 mi.
