Ballad of Birmingham essay Police brutality, viscious k-9 dogs, powerful water hoses used forcefully, that was all part of the events in Birmingham during the march for freedom. I believe Dudley Randall chose these events to Emphasize the brutal events a peaceful protest in Birmingham, Alabama. Beatings and killings of innocent people, a very hard truth to swallow. These were the same people who bled the same blood as you. People who just wanted equal rights as people of opposite color. Yet, they were beat unconscious & arrested in the streets they marched in for just to have the equal rights as the ones who looked down on them. Judgement & Division; something these people had to deal with everyday. Not being able to use or do
