The Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham Alabama :: Black Civil Rights Movement

Walls are built up all over the world. They have many purposes and uses. The most common use of a ring is to divide a region. One of these storied walls is the Berlin Wall, which was constructed in 1961. This Wall was erected to keep East Berlin out of West Berlin, and even the States had its own wall sanitary before this one. There were a few major differences though. Americas wall, in contrast, was not a physical one that kept capitalism from communism. Americas wall was of a psychological variety, and it spread across most of the nation. Americas wall was more of a curtain in the fact that one could easily pull it aside to see what behind it, but if one didnt want to they didnt. This curtain was what separated whites and blacks in America, and one famous writer, James Baldwin, felt thither was a need to bring it down. He felt that one should bring it down while controlling his or her emotions caused by the division. One of the best places to see the bringing down of the curta in and the effects that it had on the nation is where the curtain was its strongest, in Birmingham, Alabama.Forty years ago there was an explosion of batterys in Alabama. These attacks on communities seemed endless, as endless the hate that had been brewing in Alabama itself. These attacks seemed to be concentrated in the city of Birmingham, which is the setting for a place where a very tragic event bequeath happen, one that brought the attention of the world to the evil curtain within Birmingham. In the church bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church four little girls were killed in the blast on September 15th, 1963. Although this event started unrest and upheaval, by in the end it will have sparked the destruction of the curtain.To understand the why these youths were killed in Alabama, one must come to understand the events that led up to their death. Birmingham, Alabama was a very coseismal area during the 1960s, and this instability stemmed from pure racial hatred brewing w ithin this city. Bombings started as early as the 1940s and gave a section of Birmingham the nickname dynamite alley. The resulting civil unrest caused a man to step forward to stop it, a man by the name of Fred Shuttlesworth. Mr. Shuttlesworth was a part of the grey Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and he organized many events and demonstrations but the only result that came from them was more violence.