To Kill a Mockingbird

The editor to whom Harper Lee submitted the manuscript of a short story back in the 1950’s urged her to expand the story into a novel, apparently perceiving the timeliness of the material, for Jackie Robinson had recently become the first Negro to play big league baseball and in Montgomery, Alabama, the Rev. Martin Luther King was using the fighting technique of passive resistance to attack discrimination.

Note: The final rationale below was newly created in 2024.