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Almost every U.S. high school student, it seems, has read “To Kill a Mockingbird.”But Harper Lee’s 1960 novel about a white Southern lawyer fighting for justice for a black client hasn’t always been welcome in the classroom.According to the American Library Association, the book has been challenged or removed from libraries numerous times since its publication over complaints about its racial themes and use of profanity In January 1966, the Hanover County School Board banned “To Kill a Mockingbird” after unanimously voting to remove all books not on the State Board of Education’s list approved for state subsidy. The decision came after a board member called the book, which wasn’t on the list, “immoral literature.”The Hanover board’s decision sparked a flurry of letters to the editor in the Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Richmond News Leader.Among those writing to the papers about the ban was Lee, who sent a scathing missive about the decision to The News Leader.