Curtis, Paul. (1995). The Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963. New York: Delacorte Press.
This is a story about a ten year old boy
named Kenneth Barnard Johnson and his family who live in Flint, Michigan. It was 1963 and It was a very cold place and
the time when the Civil Rights Movement was going on. Kenny’s brother had gotten into trouble and was
going through some rough times. The family decided that the best thing to do
was for him to go spend a summer with his grandma Sands in Birmingham, Alabama.
The family decides to travel by car to drop off Byron with his grandma Sands to
see if she could help. During the adventurous trip there was family bonding and
they were happy. They are relieved when
they get to Birmingham. But they are yet to find out the devasting events that
arise once they are there. Everyone is
affected by them but mostly affected is Kenny. The devasting events change the
family forever. This was an interesting story to read as it described a loving,
hilarious and tragical novel about the civil rights and how the violence
impacted an african american family.
This could be used to expose students to the
realities of racism towards blacks in the 1960’s and the troubles that Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks went through.
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