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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
Christopher Paul Curtis
Introduction
Background
Discussion Starters
Menu
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
Christopher Paul Curtis
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: Introduction
Kenny has problems.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: Introduction
His friend stole his toys.
And he thinks his lazy eye makes him look funny.
His older brother, Byron, is mean to him.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: Introduction
One day Kenny’s family decides to take a cross-country trip from Michigan to Alabama.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: Introduction
Kenny’s parents have decided that Byron needs to spend a summer in Birmingham with his grandmother, who’ll teach him how to behave.
Kenny thinks this sounds too good to be true. Will one of his problems really go away?
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: Introduction
But in Birmingham, Kenny’s problems collide with America’s problems.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: Background
After the Civil War, laws and constitutional amendments were passed to give equal rights to African Americans, but the laws were often ignored, especially in the South.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: Background
For many years, African Americans in the South had to live with segregation.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: Background
This meant African Americans had to use separate bathrooms, water fountains, beaches, and other public facilities.
African Americans were also forced to ride in a different section of busses and go to separate schools.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: Background
But as long as segregation laws existed, African Americans found ways to protest them.
These protests grew especially strong in the 1950s and 1960s.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: Background
People like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., held sit-ins and protests, gave speeches, organized boycotts, and formed organizations to help people fight for equality.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: Background
But not everyone in the South wanted segregation to go away.
Some white Americans tried to stop the changes—sometimes in horrible and violent ways.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: Background
On Sunday, September 15, 1963, at 10:22 A.M., a bomb exploded in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Four African American girls were killed.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: Discussion Starters
Discuss (1)
• Since 1963, how has the United States made progress in fighting racism and discrimination?
• Where do barriers between ethnic groups still exist?
• What can you do to break down these barriers?
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: Discussion Starters
Discuss (2)
• What effects do you think the church bombing had on members of the civil rights movement?
• How would you have responded to the bombing if you were in Birmingham at the time?
• What political actions or ideas today have affected your family? How have they affected you?