TIL when a Virginia school board tried to ban "To Kill a Mockingbird" as immoral, author Harper Lee wrote a letter asking if the board members were literate and donated money to enroll them in the first grade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee



Submitted March 18, 2015 at 11:29PM by TheRedKIller http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2zhpm9/til_when_a_virginia_school_board_tried_to_ban_to/