The public school district in Biloxi, Mississippi, did not specify which words, exactly, in "To Kill a Mockingbird" are so objectionable that the book was yanked from an eighth-grade reading list last week, 57 years after it published.
Some language. Maybe it's the same language that concerned a Waukegan, Illinois, school system in 1984; or a middle school principal in North Carolina in 2004; or Virginia's tiny Accomack County School District when it cleansed its libraries of "Mockingbird" last year.
But we'll stick with the 1960 classic — in part because its removal from Biloxi classrooms has launched a protest movement that now includes a U.