Answer:Although Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960 she actually set her novel in the mid-1930s. This was a time when many white people, particularly in the southern states of America were racist towards black people.Harper Lee began writing To Kill a Mockingbird in the mid-1950s. It was published in 1960, just before the peak of the American civil rights movement. Initial critical responses to the novel were mixed. Many critics praised Lee for her sensitive treatment of a child's awakening to racism and prejudice.
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