![]() ![]() He supports the White Citizens Council, argues that African Americans haven’t earned their citizenship and worries what will happen if voter suppression efforts aren’t successful. That likely explains why a number of reviewers have treated Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman like a dead rodent to be held at arm’s length while taken to the trash.įor unlike Mockingbird’s Atticus – a lone hero who represented a disabled black man falsely accused of assaulting a white woman – the Atticus in Go Set a Watchman opposes Brown v Board of Education, which overturned segregation. ![]() Meanwhile, the conservative traditionalist using legal arguments to cling to the past is justly forgotten. The brave, solitary figure standing up for justice against all odds has a claim on the heart. ![]()
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