The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963屈臣氏去伯明翰–1963.pptVIP

The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 a collection of terms and images related to Christopher Paul Curtis’s 1995 novel the “brown bomber” (p. 6) “That was what we called our car. It was a 1948 Plymouth that was dull brown and real big, Byron said it was turd brown.” conk (p. 87) “Byron had gotten a conk! A process! A do! A butter! A ton of trouble! His hair was reddish brown, straight, stiff and slick-looking. Parts of it stuck up like porcupine stickers because Momma hadn’t been too gentle when she snatched the handkerchief off.” “conk” a lye-straightened hairdo popularized in the 1920s by Cab Calloway image: the KINGS of SWING @ /Depts/IPHS/Projects/swing1/music/kings.htm “Yakkety Yak” Kenny’s favorite song ? Written by The Coasters Trivia! The group began in Los Angeles as The Robins. Later part of the group split off and formed a new group in New York. They called themselves The Coasters because of their coast-to-coast roots. “Yakkety Yak” “Yakkety Yak” (p. 117) The Brown Bomber’s TT AB-700, Ultraglide probably looked like this. Buster Brown shoes (p. 142) Buster Brown shoes (p. 142) Outhouses Flint Skyline Southern Sky “Redneck Hillbillies” The Wool Poo Whirlpool Buster Brown shoes: journal Homework: imagery * * From Mike’s 1940’s Automobile Page @ /~plymouth/alexp15.jpg Cab Calloway Info: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame @ /hof/inductee.asp?id=81 Image: /images/Coasters.jpg Imagine Kenny and his family listening to this song while sitting in the Brown Bomber! “Each of us kids got to play four songs each (I played “Yakety Yak” all four times)…” Image: http://home.swipnet.se/~w-49476/100.htm “I took her shoes off for her, and inside one of her shoes was a kind of worn-down picture of a little white boy with a girl’s hairdo and a smiling dog. In a circle around both of them it said, “Buster Brown.” Image: /shop.asp?shopid=bustr image: /popopedia/shows/fashion/fa1152.php “As I drifted back to sleep I wondered what a little white boy would think if he knew he