"To Kill a Mockingbird" - Banned Books Week 2021

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee was on the American Library Association's (ALA) Top 10 Most Challenged Books four times (2009, 2011, 2017, 2020).
The latest reason (2020) in this year's list, "Banned and challenged for racial slurs and their negative effect on students..."
Erika George, the director of the Tanner Humanities Center, reads a quote from the protagonist, Atticus Finch.
Learn more about what the Marriott Library is doing this year to celebrate: blog.lib.utah.edu/banned-book...
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Inspired Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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[@Baskerville1000]

Thank you, it's so outrageous to ban this masterpiece out of reasons beyond my comprehension. Whitewashing American literature isn't helping to solve racial injustice. These 'slurs' are part of everyday life for some people, at least they are a part of American history. This book educates future generations about the extent and consequences of the widely accepted habits of societal injustice of former times. Banning it does a major disservice to the persistent problem of racial inequalities.