In Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman,' a less noble Atticus Finch

After the Supreme Court issued its landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring segregation in public schools unconstitutional, Robert Penn Warren set off on a journey south. He was returning to his native land from New York City to witness and contend with the effects of the ruling on its people: "I was going back to look at the landscapes and streets I had known," he wrote, "to look at the faces, to hear the voices, to hear, in fact, the voices in my own blood."