To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s celebrated novel about a wrongful rape accusation in 1930s Alabama, has been removed as required reading in a school district in Washington state.
Three teachers in Mukilteo School District, about 15 miles north of Seattle, objected to the 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning book due to what they called its romanticisation of a “white saviour” complex, one-dimensional black characters, and frequent use of the N-word.
