it was like to lose a child in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. Although news reports might have described the sadness and shock of the families‚ outsiders couldn’t truly comprehend the magnitude of their loss unless they experienced it themselves. “Ballad of Birmingham” doesn’t attempt to describe the emotions of that day in 1963‚ but instead‚ creates them by focusing on two people-- a mother and daughter-- who were affected by the bombing firsthand. The first four
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“The Ballad of Birmingham” Written in 1969‚ Dudley Randall’s poem “The Ballad of Birmingham” illustrates a mothers struggle to keep her young daughter away from harm during a civil rights rally in Birmingham. Throughout the poem‚ symbols such as a church‚ a child‚ and a shoe represent African-Americans and their fight against segregation. These symbols represent the struggle for equality during civil rights movement in the 1960s‚ and how these events changed the lives of blacks in the United States
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On September 15th‚ 1963‚ a bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham‚ Alabama. The floor of the church collapsed. A Sunday school session was under way and four children were in the church basement preparing for the service. Four girls died Denise McNair‚ aged 11‚ Addie Mae Collins‚ Cynthia Wesley and Carol Robertson‚ all aged 14. Many others were injured as well. No one was initially arrested for this crime even though the authorities suspected four men within days of the
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Crow laws. 2. The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham was used as a meeting-place for civil rights leaders. On Sunday‚ September 15‚ 1963‚ white man was seen getting out of a Chevrolet car and placing a box under the steps of the church. Soon afterwards‚ around 10 a.m.‚ the bomb exploded killing Denise McNair (11)‚ Addie Mae Collins (14)‚ Carole Robertson (14) and Cynthia Wesley (14). The four girls had been attending Sunday school classes at the church. Twenty-three other people were
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attend a freedom march in downtown Birmingham with her friends. Her mother‚ fearing violence‚ refuses to let her go and suggests that the child go to church instead. After she leaves‚ the mother is relieved that the child is in a safe place; then‚ she hears the bomb explode and rushes out to make sure her child is ok. She goes to the site of the church‚ which is now a pile of broken glass and bricks‚ and searches through the debris. She isn’t able to find her child‚ but she does find her little girl’s
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through the northeast corner of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham‚ Alabama. "I couldn’t see anymore because my eyes were full of glass - 23 pieces of glass‚" says Cox. "I didn’t know what happened. I just remember calling‚ ’Addie‚ Addie.’ But there was no answer. I don’t remember any pain. I just remember wanting Addie." That afternoon‚ while Cox’s parents comforted her at the hospital‚ her older sister Junie‚ 16‚ who had survived the bombing unscathed‚ was taken to the University Hospital
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The Explosion in Birmingham 1963 is a special year for the black in Birmingham. Four little lives were taken by unknown parties on September 15 when the sixteen street Baptist church was bombed. It was just a normal Sunday. There was a Student Show that day in the church‚ but the disaster was just happened without any portent. The reason for the disaster is obviously the racism. As a person who hasn’t experience it‚ we couldn’t understand the pain of the black‚ as they were always be
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Birmingham Church Bombing “Blast Kills Four Children…”! It was in all the newspapers and everybody was talking about it. The Birmingham Church Bombing may not have been the first bombing over race‚ but it was the first that killed. This horrible event took the lives of four little girls and injured many more. This bombing demonstrated just how bad racial tensions truly had gotten‚ especially in Alabama. Michele Norris is one of the great authors that actually wrote about the Birmingham Church Bombing
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girls miss school to march and end up being attacked by police dogs‚ and fire hoses‚ and the sixteenth street baptist church bombing. A story that really hit me emotionally was the sixteenth baptist church bomb that took the life
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movement would challenge not only the corrupt practices of the Catholic Church but also the legitimacy of the institution entire. Up to the sixteenth century‚ Catholicism was the dominant form of Christianity in all of Christendom (Christian world). Other Christian sects existed such as the Coptic Church in North Africa and Orthodoxy in Eastern Europe‚ but none had the power and authority held by the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church wielded total spiritual authority over Europe at this time‚ as well
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