Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing Research Paper

In the past couple of weeks instead of talking about the involvement of the adults during the civil rights movement instead the focus has been on the involvement of children and adolescents. Some of the people and events talked about include Emmett Till being beaten to death and shot, the Little Rock Crisis were nine African Americans who are some of the top in their current situation are being protested against to the point of needing military involvement, the children's march were little African American boys and 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
Little did they know that in the same basement was a bomb set to go off at the same time the ceremony would begin. In the videos watch in class it is learned that the church received a phone call prior to the bomb that seemed like nonsense but would soon be seen as a warning. Three minutes after the call the bomb was detonated and took the lives of four girls and injured another twenty. In the poem Ballad of Birmingham, Dudley Randall writes so it is read as a conversation would sound. The poem starts with a child asking to go march and a mother pretty much saying no you can not do that it is too dangerous after that option is shot down the child argues that it is okay because they will not be alone again the mother says no but this time she offers to let her daughter attend church. In the next two stanza the reader gets a visual of a little African American girl cleaned and groomed dressed to attend church with her mother smiling and willingly letting the daughter go to Church. But just like that Dudley Randall drops a bomb and flips the poem around now instead of smiling and feeling as though her daughter is safe the reader can visualize a mother digging through the rubbage, calling for her daughter, with no answer and the only thing left of that
Other parents would be getting ready to drop their child off at daycare before heading to work that day. While sitting in on a plane or pulling away from daycare most would not think it is the last time of seeing that childs face or that a grown adult could take the life from a little body and not have a second thought. However on 9/11/2001 a terrorist attack on the twin towers would take would change all of that. Although the majority of the victims on 9/11 were adults there was still a total of eight children who would never return to school, their home, or friends. On the news after the attack many families desperately tried to make contact with their family and if they knew that their loved one was working in the tower went looking. For some loved ones were found but for even more their loved ones had passed and on that day the world lost eight children. Unlike the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church the ones who killed hundreds of innocent citizens would be caught. Our military went searching for the leader and when they caught Osama bin Laden he was killed. For the mother's of the four girls whose lives were taken the murders would walk free for over twenty years. Some would die before ever being charged. So not only did the mothers of Addie Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Denise McNair lose their daughter but also saw the