The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Watsons aren't your typical family from Michigan.  They wear six, even seven, sweaters each day in winter to ward off the cold.  They fight about their hair.  They even have a record player in their car (which they call the Brown Bomber).  But they stick together through thick and thin, especially when they move to Alabama - a black family in the middle of the segregated South during the Civil Rights movement.