07-13-2015, 09:44 PM
IMO, many people (the vast majority, for me) will understand that while Atticus and Scout are fictional characters, Brown vs. Board of Education, desegregation activism, and the Klu Klux Klan really did exist when the novel was submitted for publication back in 1957; many people know that creators of fictional works often incorporate real history into their stories and always have.