The Safety of African Americans During The Civil Rights Movement: From A Literary Perspective There are many literary works that address the violence associated with the civil rights movement. These works, though written for different reasons, essentially serve the same purpose. Two such works are a poem "Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall and an essay by Martin Luther King, Jr. entitled "Letter from Birmingham Jail". Though these pieces of literature were written for different reasons and have many differences, they both in their own way bring attention to and shine light on ho...

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