Acknowledgements for The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

Funding for this research and curriculum project came from the Center for Children’s Books at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Additional financial support was provided by Alabama Public Humanities.

Thank you to the Center for Children’s Books research assistants, who were indispensable to the creation of this site: Joshua Altshuler (lead student researcher), Mia Walter (lead curriculum developer), Christina Sallis, and Helen Salkheld. Thank you especially to the Director of the Center for Children's Books, Dr. Sara Schwebel.

For research assistance and permission to use resources:

• Alabama Department of Archives and History
• Kettering University Library & Special Collections (especially Melanie Bazil, Curator of Special Collections and Dina Mein, Ph.D., University Librarian)
• Genesee Historical Collections Center at University of Michigan-Flint’s Frances Willson Thompson Library (especially Callum Carr, Assistant Archivist)
• The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Library
• The Sloan Museum of Discovery
• The Library of Michigan (especially Kendel Joy Darragh, Reference Librarian)
• The Flint Journal (MLive)
• Karen A. D. Burton and the Davis family, for sharing family photographs and stories

For ongoing support and collaboration:

• The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (especially Samantha Briggs, Ph.D., Vice President of Education and Charles Woods, III, Education Director)
• Ruth Mott Foundation/Applewood (especially Renee Saba, Manager of Education Programs)
• Flint Public Library (especially Kay Schwartz, Executive Director and Leslie Acevedo, Director of Library Operations)
• The St. John’s Street Historical Committee
• Matthew McDaniel, Digital Experience Strategist with the National Park Service, for his support of Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument staff in formatting and uploading the content

Additional thanks to

• Lisa Daniels, Teacher-Ranger-Teacher, Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument (2021)
• Sara Benson, J.D., copyright Librarian and Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Voices from the Field contributors