50 Years Since "Mockingbird"

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee's classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
I was first introduced to the book my sophomore year of high school. I really enjoyed it, I'm sure in large part to a great English teacher (Hi, Miss Drummond!) who helped us students "get" that the story is so much more than what the first page proclaims it to be.
As teenagers (and kids who hadn't experienced racism firsthand, for the most part) we saw Scout's world through Scout's...