Daily News | The new exhibit at Philly’s Historic Germantown looks at race and class through the ground-breaking 1946 children’s book ‘Bright April’
Becky Birtha, a poet and author who has written three children’s books herself, has a lot in common with the young girl who is the main character in the bookLike April, Birtha is Black, grew up in Germantown, was a member of a Brownie troop, wore her hair in two pigtails, and had a father who worked for U.S. Postal Service.
Birtha, now 74 and living in Lansdowne, said that she was struck by the way April’s fictional parents explained racial prejudice. Birtha’s parents met with the teacher and eventually Birtha was transferred to another classroom. But Birtha said her parents never discussed racial prejudice with her in that situation.
Through conversations with Susan Bockius, the co-curator who knew de Angeli after the author moved to Green Lane, a borough in Montgomery County, and Lynn Washington, who once operated a bookstore in Germantown, the plans for a 75th-anniversary observation changed into the broader, current exhibit.
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