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Dudley Randall's Ballad of Birmingham
Dudley Randall's Ballad of Birmingham gives a poetic account of the bombing of a Birmingham church in 1963. The poem was written in ballad form to convey the mood of the mother to her daughter. The author also gives a graphic account of what the 1960's were like. Iron ....
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.... the church the warzone and place of destruction while the march was the safest place to be. The child was depicted as combed hair, freshly bathed, with white gloves, and white shoes, which is also ironic. The mother had sent an angel dressed in white to a firestorm from hell called church. The mother was completely sure that her daughter was safe until she heard the explosion.
The bombing of that church in 1963 could not have been depicted any better by the Birmingham Post. The ballad's tone changed with every paragraph that seemed to capture the tru ....
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