Social Injustice In Birmingham, Alabama

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If Americans continue to deny the fact racism exists, the dilemma will persist to live on.
In Birmingham, Alabama, there is a church on 16th Street that was bombed on September 15, 1963, killing four girls for racial reasons. But, if you walk outside on the sidewalk, dark brown, mahogany, and yellow bricks line the perimeter, intertwined. These bricks lie there, sturdy and woven together to remind people of the time where the unity of people of all colors defeated prejudice. If we unite, like people did in the 1930s, and cause people to come to the realization that social injustice is a real problem, all types of social injustice will be terminated.

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