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Film Review: ‘Hey Boo’ Celebrates 50th Anniversary of “To Kill a Mockingbird”

(DVD Review) In 1961, Harper Lee, an unknown white woman from a small town in Alabama, won a Pulitzer Prize for her groundbreaking novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Released at the height of the African-American struggle against Jim Crow segregation, the book played a pivotal role in raising the country’s awareness of racism while simultaneously …