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Velshi Banned Book Club: 'The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963' by Christopher Paul Curtis - Velshi - MSNBC
The beloved children’s classic and Newbery Honor award-winner, ‘The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963’ by Christopher Paul Curtis. Although the church bombing is central to the plot of the novel, this “is the story of a family,” says Curtis, who uses the juxtaposition to make his point. “It's not a story, per se, about the civil rights movement or about hatred, – it's a story of a family and a group of children's reaction to an event that they don't understand.” - Aired on 02/01/2025.