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The New York Times September 17th, 1961

“To Kill A Mockingbird” Giving the Civil Rights Movement Hope.
 * By: Jacob Caralle, New York Times **
 * To Kill a Mockingbird. We have all heard of it. We have all read the book. It is a great story to read. But let's be honest, it is just a story. The Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. and his crew are now trying to say that this book is a motivation to the their little attempt to make Blacks as equal as us. And Believe you me, this will cause an uproar in this great city. **
 * The Movement that Martin Luther King had started a few years back is a bunch of blacks from Alabama trying to make themselves as equal as us. It is already scary enough that the government is trying to make the blacks get new rights. Now, they have a stupid book to help them out. This book takes place in Alabama, all throughout the book people discriminate black people. There is a rape in the book where a black man supposivly rapes a nice white lady. Now everyone knows he did not do it, but they still go through with the trial. **
 * In my opinion, I think this lady is very smart to blame a rape on a black man. Hey, if you need a few extra bucks, why not take it away from a idiot negro. I didn’t read the whole book, but I bet that negro gets locked away. Now when I read this I chuckled because this lady is so smart. But now, the negro civil rights group thinks it is a great idea to show this to the government and try to make themselves half as important as us. But we will not let this happen. “I was just writing a book that seemed like a topic that would be popular. I never thought that there would be a huge uproar over a fiction writing piece.” quoted Harper Lee on Tuesday, the author of this book. **
 * Us New York people need to put a stop to this. If the negro people think that a book will make them just as important as us, They need to think again. **