Curtis, C. P. (1995). The
Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963. NY: Delacorte
America was going through some changes of Civil Rights and
Segregation. A family of five living in Michigan in the 1960’s where life
challenges are living in a cold apartment and a son who is involved in gangs.
The only solution to the problem it to leave him at his grandmother’s down in
the south, but the parents have been assured by Grandma Sands that nothing is
happening around where she lives. The Watsons seem unaware of the seriousness
the South was enduring at this time. They were set that his oldest needed a
change of venue and a strict person to bring him up and that was Grandma Sands.
But much to their surprise they were heading straight to a place of conflict
and turmoil. The story is told by the
middle child name Kenny who is oblivious to what is going on the world around
him. The whole family is change when they come to Birmingham and experience a
church bombing and their youngest becomes one of the victims.
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