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A Mississippi School Board’s decision to strike the classic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” from the eighth-grade curriculum has reignited questions over when, if at all, a book should be banned from a classroom.
After receiving complaints that some of the language in the book made some uncomfortable, the Biloxi School District pulled the book from Language Arts classes, the Clarion-Ledger reported.
Harper Lee’s tale of a racial inequality in a Southern town, was originally published in 1960. The book, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is set in the 1930s, when Lee was a child, and uses language common for the time, including a derogatory term for African-Americans.
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Local author Barbara Shoup has some firsthand experience with books being banned. Her adolescent coming of age novel “Wish You Were Here” made the 1995 list of top 100 banned books.
“I am appalled,” Shoup wrote in an email, saying Lee’s tale offers a realistic depiction of life in the…
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