The Watson's Go To Birmingham Reflection

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For the past few days, my class watched and read The Watson 's go to Birmingham. This book/movie is about a young boy named Kenny, with a family of five visiting their grandma in Birmingham, Alabama. Kenny, Joey, and Byron are not used to going down south, they live in Michigan all their life.In this book, Kenny, Joey, and Bryon faced the real world. They know the things that they had to do because of the color of their skin. Like going to the back of the movie theater with a sign saying colored people only. They had to walk up the back off to the highest section of the theater .They were so confused, you can see the look on their faces. This is all taking place in 1963. As we know, 1963 wasn 't a very good year for African American’s

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