The Tempus Collective - "Birmingham"

In 1960 Birmingham Alabama is the most segregated city in southern America, a brutal regime is in place denying blacks any rights. City Mayor, Bull Connor sets his dogs on the black community, he hoses them, and denies them all civil liberties. Churches are burned and men, women and children are brutalised, some are targeted and killed as a result of the colour of their skin. 1963 saw the civil rights fight start in this city, so chosen because of its troubles. One year later, following the great march on Washington and Luthers ‘I have a dream speech’ the civil rights act of 1964 was signed. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. Music & Lyrics by S Grieve & K Fleming (based around the words of Martin Luther King Jr.) How do you tell, your seven year old girl, She aint going to funtown, today It’s the colour of your skin, she just aint getting in, Not today, no how…. The dream that once you had, For-ever shall be heard, Let freedom ring, ..this day, From every city If they take your name, sing it, As the churches burn, there never was shame, And as the crosses flame, white cotton Dixie, Jailed for peace and prayer, Alabama 63, If a man has not found, some – thing for which he is prepared to die, Then he aint fit to live, this life we call our own, we call our own… Gotta fight to call our own……… Thank god almighty, we are free at last…..free at last……