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The trilogy follow-up series To Kill a Dirty Foot Baptist; Murder in Maycomb County became a WB mini-series where Jem grows up and lives a double life as a local mercantile stock boy and a civil rights lawyer for the fledgling ACLU.

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Although the author calls the town where the story takes place, "Maycomb," Lee based the characters on real people she knew growing up.

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Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt for the summer.

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The adults of Maycomb are hesitant to talk about Boo and for many years few have seen him.

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To Kill a Mockingbird is, in essence, the story of Tom Robinson and the racial prejudice that permeates the 1930s southern town of Maycomb.

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We are becoming a culture who, like the bad guy of Maycomb, Bob Ewell, must always have "some kind of comeback."

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The novel had its origins in Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama -- the small, Southern town that the fictional Maycomb is based upon.

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More and more, we operate as if we are truly islands unto ourselves, much like the Ewells who lived near the town dump isolated from everyone in Maycomb.

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In the years before he won the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case that ended legalized segregation in public schools, Thurgood Marshall often found himself in hostile Southern towns not unlike Lee's Maycomb, Alabama, putting himself in danger by representing powerless men falsely accused of rape or murder.

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In the years before he won the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case that ended legalized segregation in public schools, Thurgood Marshall often found himself in hostile Southern towns not unlike Lee's Maycomb, Alabama, putting himself in danger by representing powerless men falsely accused of rape or murder.

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