‘Just Mercy’ - What’s the book at the center of controversy in Yorkville about?

‘Just Mercy’ - What’s the book at the center of controversy in Yorkville about?

YORKVILLE – The Yorkville School District 115 Board of Education has decided that the book “Just Mercy” is too controversial to be taught in the Yorkville High School English II Rhetorical Analysis course.So, what’s the book about?Author Bryan Stevenson’s memoir centers on the story of Walter McMillian, a Black man who was falsely accused and convicted of murdering a white woman in Monroeville, Alabama.Stevenson began representing the man in the…