Read this excerpt from we’ve got a job: the 1963 children’s march. almost everyone knew that, card-carrying members or not, the klan literally got away with murder, with the tacit permission and sometimes encouragement of connor. and there were lots of klansmen in town to carry out these despicable crimes: most of the 11,000 members of the kkk in alabama lived in the birmingham area. how does this excerpt readers make a connection to world events? by offering statistics about the population of birmingham by offering opinions about the frustrations of law-abiding citizens by offering details about southern resistance to civil rights by offering facts about a black family’s struggle to survive