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Civil Rights Movement: The Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963

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The civil rights movement was a very dark time for many African Americans. The book that I read was The Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963. Although, I did not like the book it was historically accurate. The Book the Watsons go to Birmingham was a decent book for these reasons. For an example the book was pretty slow to get going, because a lot of time in the book was spent in Flint Michigan, where there was no racism going on there. But I will give the author this, the book had great slang from the old days and it was pretty funny. Moving on, there was the whole Watson 's family: Joey the smallest one, Kenny the 4th grade narrator, Byron a 13 year old juvenile delinquent, the dad, and the mom from Birmingham Alabama. Byron gets
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