Huffington Postさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Huffington PostInstagram)「A small Alabama city that’s best known for inspiring the American literary classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” has elected its first Black mayor.⁠ ⁠ Monroeville, a city of about 5,700 residents in southwest Alabama, elected Charles Andrews, 65, to replace incumbent Sandy Smith last week.⁠ ⁠ Andrews, in a video message posted Sunday, said he’s “honored and humbled” to be the first to break this racial barrier in his city.⁠ ⁠ “Today, as I stand on the threshold of history, the shoulders of our parents and our foreparents, we are one people, one town and one team, all inclusive,” he said.⁠ ⁠ Author Harper Lee, who published “To Kill A Mockingbird” in 1960, resided in Monroeville and used it as the basis for the novel’s fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel’s story dealt with racial inequality and injustice, with it focusing on the wrongful rape conviction of a Black man and the white locals’ reaction to the trial.⁠ ⁠ Andrews, speaking with AL.com, recalled watching as a child the 1962 movie “To Kill a Mockingbird” at a segregated Monroeville theater with his mother, as well as seeing a “White Only” sign on a water fountain at a local gas station after learning how to read.⁠ ⁠ Read more at our link in bio. // 📷 Elect Charles Andrews 2020/Facebook」9月3日 1時20分