Mississippi students allowed to read To Kill a Mockingbird – with a parent's note

• Biloxi officials had pulled novel from lesson plan for junior high students
• Parents complained that language in the book ‘makes people uncomfortable’

Junior high school students in Biloxi, Mississippi will be allowed after all to read To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s classic novel of race and racism in the American south as part of their regular study – but only with permission from a parent.

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