Question

Poem

Answer 1

“Mother dear, may I go downtown
Instead of out to play,
And march the streets of Birmingham
In a Freedom March today?”
5 “No, baby, no, you may not go,
For the dogs are fierce and wild,
And clubs and hoses, guns and jails
Aren’t good for a little child.”
“But, mother, I won’t be alone.
10 Other children will go with me,
And march the streets of Birmingham
To make our country free.”
“No, baby, no, you may not go,
For I fear those guns will fire.
15 But you may go to church instead
And sing in the children’s choir.”
She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair,
And bathed rose petal sweet,
And drawn white gloves on her small brown hands,
20 And white shoes on her feet.
The mother smiled to know her child
Was in the sacred place,
But that smile was the last smile
To come upon her face.
25 For when she heard the explosion,
Her eyes grew wet and wild.
She raced through the streets of Birmingham
Calling for her child.
She clawed through bits of glass and brick,
30 Then lifted out a shoe.
“O, here’s the shoe my baby wore,
But, baby, where are you?”

Answer 2

@TwiztTiez

Answer 3

:| omg

Answer 4

So what are the questions?

Answer 5

Why won`t the mother let her child march on the streets of Birmingham?

I believe the answer is because of the dangers the came with the amount of racism there would be against the child?

Answer 6

Yes but we could word it better ^-^ she fears for the dangers that are going on in Birmingham surrounding racism she knows that if she were to let her child onto the streets awful things are to come

Answer 7

That sounds much better ha.

Answer 8

Why is it ironic that the mother asks her child to go to church?

Answer 9

The irony is that the church ends up being the place that was least safe

Answer 10

I agree, thanks so much for all your help!

Answer 11

No prob! ^-^