Ballad Of Birmingham

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child would be no match for them. The mother refused to let her child march in the wild streets of Birmingham and sent her to the safest place that no harm would become of her daughter.
Going to church in the ghetto in Birmingham was probably the safest place a mother could send her child. But this is where the irony takes place. The irony makes 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 true feelings of the characters. The sixties were a time of turmoil and change, which ...

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