Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' explores racial injustice and moral courage in the Deep South through the eyes of young Scout Finch. Her lawyer father, Atticus, ...
In the 60 years since “To Kill a Mockingbird,” one of the most widely read books in middle school, was published, the lens through which it frames race and its Black characters has come under scrutiny ...
When Mary Badham talks about “To Kill a Mockingbird,” people listen. The Alabama native, 71, has a unique perspective on Harper Lee’s famous novel and the impact it’s had on the world. Badham, who ...
it is one of the trademark texts of the American school system by Harper Lee. For decades it has been widely read in high schools and middle schools as a key anti-racist text. But how did this novel, ...
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