Byron Watsons Go To Birmingham

In a summer fraught with hate and strife, the Watsons reacted with love and kindness. They were but one family, and fictional at that. But the Newbery Medal-winning book "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" ...

Montgomery Advertiser: ASF’s ‘Watsons Go To Birmingham’ is moving, powerful journey | REVIEW

The Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s adaptation of “The Watsons Go To Birmingham” melds the disparate atmospheres of loving but typical family life and an unnerving societal racial hatred into a ...

Based on Christopher Paul Curtis's 1995 novel (and adapted by Cherly L. West), The Watsons Go To Birmingham is the latest production at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. This historical drama ...

National Catholic Reporter: 'Watsons Go to Birmingham' an opportunity to talk about things that matter

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'Watsons Go to Birmingham' an opportunity to talk about things that matter

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Chicago Sun-Times: Horrific moment in time tests family bonds in ‘The Watsons Go to Birmingham’

Horrific moment in time tests family bonds in ‘The Watsons Go to Birmingham’

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: In 'The Watsons Go to Birmingham,' a Black family's road trip meets up with history

"The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963" reminds us that the warmth and struggles of family life and growing up happen simultaneously with disturbing events in the world around us. No matter how smart or ...

In 'The Watsons Go to Birmingham,' a Black family's road trip meets up with history

The Hallmark Channel's original movie, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, follows a family from Flint, MI who travels to Birmingham in the summer of 1963—the same year the four little girls were killed in ...