Review: The Watsons Go To Birmingham

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"The holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history, I mean in this century, but we lived in this century, I didn’t live in this century"-Dan Quayle  
After reading The Watsons Go to Birmingham I learned of the 1965, 16th street bombing, and realized a lot of innocent people get killed for no reason. In my opinion I believe all violence is bad. 
 First, one group that has a lot of hat towards people is the Ku Klux Klan also known as the KKK 
The KKK has killed 1500 people, 1200 were colored people and 300 were white people. Next, the KKK planted 15 sticks of dynamite in the 16h street Baptist church in 1965. Which resulted to four young girls killed and many more injured. 
Next, the holocaust is another act of violence towards hate.

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