Note to students: Some of your rights may not specifically be mentioned in the book or your sources. Therefore, you will have to generalize. This is not an easy task to do. See me for help. I can give you questions to answer that will help you complete the thinking process. Don't forget to use the Checkup document I shared with you, the graphic organizer, and my symbaloo. (Hit add to remix on the site if you are not able to see all of the icons at first.)
There is no mention of all people having the right to vote in the Watsons. We do know that African Americans did not have all the rights afforded to Whites, though. For example, in the book it says that in the South.... Insert quote. Insert citation. We can infer that the author Curtis would support the idea of everyone voting because in the book he makes us feel lots of negative emotions about the characters not having certain rights. For example, he makes his audience feel strongly when we learn .... According to the text...
While it seems as though there is no direct proof that the right to vote is something everyone should be given, one can generalize that Christopher Paul Curtis believes that people everywhere should have the right to participate in their government elections. In the book The Watsons Go to Birmingham we know that the characters were prevented from having all the rights that Whites had. That had a very big impact on the reader. For example, when they took the trip to Alabama, they were not allowed to use the same restrooms as the Whites. This made the readers upset. It the text it said, "..." If Curtis believed that African Americans should have equal access to public facilities, it is clear that he must also believe African Americans should have the right to participate in their government through voting.