59 pages 1 hour read

Christopher Paul Curtis

The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

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In this 2019 Scholastic novel by Andrea Davis Pinkney, 12-year-old Dawnie Ray Johnson enrolls in a previously all-white school after the Supreme Court rules in favor of desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education.

Sharon Robinson, daughter of baseball phenomenon Jackie Robinson, turned 13 in January of 1963. In this Scholastic memoir, she recalls the landmark events of a crucial year in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Podcast interview with the author on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered podcast, January 12, 2012.

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