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        <title><![CDATA[If one reads the poem without knowing that little girls were killed in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If one reads the poem without knowing that little girls were killed in the Birmingham Bombing because they were in the church for Sunday school, and that church was bombed, then the poem still remains moving but puzzling. The irony of the mother sending her child to church because it's safer than marching in the streets for freedom is lost without the knowledge that the child in the poem would most likely have survived if she had been in the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[To someone living in 1969, the term Freedom March would probably have...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To someone living in 1969, the term Freedom March would probably have brought up images of the large demonstrations for civil rights that had occurred earlier in that decade.
The mention of dogs, clubs, and hoses comes directly from some of the most compelling images of the civil rights movement.  Protestors, most notably in Birmingham, Alabama, were attacked by police dogs and sprayed with extremely high-pressure water shot out of fire...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What difference does it make to the reader of "Ballad of Birmingham" if...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What difference does it make to the reader of "Ballad of Birmingham" if he/she has factual information about the casualties of the bombing?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What do you make mention of the "dogs," "clubs" and "hoses"? What did...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What do you make mention of the "dogs," "clubs" and "hoses"? What did "Freedom March" mean in 1969?
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