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Setting
Author
Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher
DelacortePress
Copyright
1995
The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963
Settingis made up
of two elements.
Clues about the time period of the story
The book’s title refers to the year 1963.
The Watsons drove a 1948 Plymouth named the “Brown Bomber.”
True-Tone AB-700 Ultra-Glides were used in cars from 1957–1968.
The TV news anchor’s name was Walter Cronkite.
Popular singers at the time were Nat King Cole and Dinah Washington.
Kenny’s favorite song was The Coasters’
“Yakety Yak”
The most important text clue is the reference to Kenny helping
his sister leave the church where the bombing of the Sixteenth
Avenue Baptist Church took place on September 15, 1963, in
Birmingham, Alabama.
Birmingham Post-Herald
BOMB BLAST KILLS 4 CHILDRENINJURES 17 AT CHURCH HERE
The journey from Flint, Michigan,
in the North to Birmingham,
Alabama, in the segregated South
was approximately 850 miles.
In 1963, the Watsons planned
to drive that distance in three days.
Time Place
The story would not have been
the same if it had taken place
in a different time period.
The bombing at the church in
Birmingham during the Civil
Rights Movement, an event that
actually happened, affects the
family—especially Byron and
Kenny.
The story would not have been
the same if the locations had
been different. The family travels
from a large city in the North
to a large city in the segregated
South. The story would have
been entirely different if the
locations had been different or if
the trip had happened in reverse.
Setting