LONG BEACH READS ONE BOOK PROGRAM 2003
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
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"The
light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim..."
The book chosen to be read during February and March of 2003 for the Long Beach Reads One Book program is "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, published in 1960. In 1961 the book received the Pullitzer Prize. The book was also made into an award-winning movie starring Gregory Peck in 1962. The Long Beach City College Library joins Mayor O'Neill, the City and the Long Beach Public Library in promoting the reading and discussion of this important book about contradicting social traits of integrity, racism, honor and injustice. "…As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."—Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird, p.233 |
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"There are books . . . which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative." --Ralph Waldo Emerson "The
only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and
which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we
have yet got ourselves." |
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