50 years ago, To kill a mockingbird...

Millions of people all over the world have read the book ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. The classic novel by Harper Lee offers insightful moral lessons about racial justice and respect. It tells the story of a young girl named Scout and her father, Atticus Finch, a lawyer.

He defends a Black man wrongfully accused of raping a white woman. In the end, an all-white jury sentences that black man – Tom Robinson – to death.

The quintessential themes of race, sex and power set in the cauldron of race hate, set in the deep American South in the 1930’s, remains a world wide best seller. Published fifty-years ago, on July 11th 1960, just at the period when the civil rights movement in the United States was gaining real strength. More...

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