Social inequality in Birmingham 1

The city of Birmingham was founded in 1871, and lies within Jefferson County and Shelby County. It is cognize by various exposes, The Magic city, Pittsburg of the South and the tragic City being few of them. Birmingham had witnessed brisk industrialization and also witnessed periods of social, political, and economic in constituteity. In the 1960s, the local government activity strategies to sustain racial segregation had disastrous effects. The church building bombing attack on September 15, 1963, brought around world criticism.The death of the four African girls was comely proof of the racial discrimination that Birmingham was facing. The unleash of misgiving and violence in Birmingham added yet another name to the list, Bombingham. This brutal attack was condemned by people end-to-end the world and led to many developments which in particular played a major role in its prosperity. That was the time when Birmingham was reeling to a lower place social and racial discrimina tion. though late by almost four decades, the felonious verdict in 2002 brought hope. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 which followed gave equal access to civil participation in Birmingham.The electing of Richard Arrington, an African American educator, as the Mayor of Birmingham in 1979 ushered in an epoch of racial harmony and prosperity. When he retired in 1999, Birmingham was deeply pitched on the road to success. and so Birmingham did suffer great social and racial inequalities scarcely it distanced itself from the past and stepped into a bright future under the leadership of many a capable hands, frankincense crossing the barriers of social inequalities. Today Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama and an international center for health care.Though Birmingham has through with(p) extremely well in various spheres, the efforts to pit right a history of pervasive understructure inequality persist even today end-to-end Birmingham. But the social conditions have greatly chan ged, and definitely, for the better. To recite Martin Luther King Jr. ,I like to conceive the negative extremes of Birminghams past will resolve into the exacting and utopian extremes of her future that the sins of a dark yesterday will be redeemed in the achievements of a bright tomorrow. REFERENCE www. africanaonline. com