The Watsons Go to Birmingham---1963
Before you Read
Awards and Honors for Watsons
- Newbery Honor Book
- Coretta Scott King Honor book
- ALA Best Book for Young Adults
- ALA Notable Book
- IRA Young Adults' Choice
- Bank Street Child Study Association Children's Book Award
- The New York Times Book Review Best Book
- Publishers Weekly Best Book
- The Horn Book Fanfare
- Bulletin Blue Ribbon
- Golden Kite Award for Fiction
1963
- May 12: President John F. Kennedy sends federal troops to Alabama to protect citizens from violence between whites opposing school integration and blacks seeking equal rights.
- June 15: Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered at his Home.
- August 28: Martin Luther King, Jr., gives his "I Have a Dream" speech in from of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
"From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official ... President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time — 2:00 Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago."
President John F. Kennedy
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Cost of Living in 1963
Average Yearly Household Income: $5,807.00
New Home: $12,650.00
New Car: $3,233.00Cost of a gallon of gasoline: $.29
Cost of a loaf of bread: $.22
The Word Place
Take a quiz to see if you are hip or square. Match the lingo to the definition.
- any cool guy you happen to be talking to
- very good and satisfying
- hair treated with a chemical to straighten it
- to understand or "get it"
- a name used to address any boy or man
- to assault or mug someone
- foolish, nonsense
- a phonograph record
- a young, inexperienced boy
- an old-fashioned person
The Lingo
b. Jack
c. Daddy-o
d. cool
e. square
f. platter
g. punk
h. conk
i. dig
j. jack up
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