“Ballad of Birmingham”, written by Dudley Randall, is considered to be deep and meaningful through the number of sophisticated philosophical elements introduced by the author. A close reading of the poem makes the reader see the interaction of political and religious aspects through social interference leading to death. The poem appears to be rather tragic and discloses its emotionality by means of literal elements and the basic theme of death showed through human beliefs and mother-child relationships. The poem depicts the influence of the Civil Rights Movement on the social life of the population; the author tries to disclose the hopes of ordinary people leading to the great tragedy and mass death of children. “And March the streets of Birmingham / In a Freedom march today…“(Randall 123). The quote demonstrates the spirit of social freedom expressed by people at that period through their hopes for a better future. “For the dogs are fierce and wild,/ And clubs and hoses, guns and jails…”(Randall 123) According to Albert Ward in the book Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960-1995, the poem highlighting the period of strategic civil movements has the notes of the religious impact of state regulations of that period. “Ballad of Birmingham” has the tragic end, the death of the child, through the consequences of civil instability; the mother feels safety for her child letting her go to the church but instead she faced her death. The author tried to underline that religion was centralized for middle-class social groups stressing usual visits to the child’s chorus. Nevertheless, the church led the child to death, thus, bringing tragedy to the family. (Thompson 115) The form of the ballad chosen by the writer can be explained by his necessity to underline the mother’s mood to her daughter. Dudley Randall demonstrated the event of the church bombing in 1963 for the purpose of epoch illustration of social life and stressed the graphic account of the social atmosphere suffered by the population. It is shown throughout the poem when the author involved the participation of the masses in a demonstration of freedom and tragedy caused by the explosion. The author manages to move slowly from an optimistic description of the freedom march to the tragic death of the child; this shift is important to the readers as it transfers the mood of the poem. (House & Weatherston 159) Mother-child relationships are demonstrated from the very beginning of the poem; calling for political participation, the girl expresses her desire to follow her peers’ actions. “But, mother, I won’t be alone./ Other children will go with me…” (Randall 123) The breakage of the conversation observed in the middle of the poem shows the child’s obedience and mother’s feeling of safety because of the church’s reliance and beliefs. Such words as the “smile” and “the last smile” stress their parallel with “explosion.” It means that the mother’s last smile caused by the explosion is contradicted to the smile of happiness presented at the beginning of the poem. The image of the church being described as “the sacred place” gradually turns into the so-called “grave” of the little girl and her mother who was also morally killed. T