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Essay Archive - A Review of Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham”
A Review of Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham”
“Ballad of Birmingham” was written in 1969 by Dudley Randall. This
poem was written in response to the 1963 bombing of a southern church in
Birmingham, Alabama. Although it deals with an unfortunate and upsetting
situation, the poem has a catchy sound and upbeat rhythm. It is a
conversation between a mother and daughter during a period of serious
upheaval and commotion in African American communities in the early 1960’s.
The readers assume that the daughter is young, given the fact that the
mother addresses her....
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