"ballad of birmingham" by dudley randall why is it ironic that the mother asks her child to go to church

Another irony connected to the church to which the mother sends her daughter in the effort to keep the child safe is the fact that this particular church, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church of Birmingham, is not just an ordinary church. It is a large structure (it is still there) which often served as an organizational headquarters for the Civil Rights Movement and a site of mass meetings as well as a rallying point for.