Why kill To Kill a Mockingbird?

Reading To Kill a Mockingbird for the second time, what stood out to me the most so far is what a powerful and unique voice Scout has as the narrator. Her character and the novel itself are completely inseparable; the story it contains wouldn’t be the same coming from any other source. It made me wonder if the youth of the narrator plays a role in the censorship of this book. Though I don’t (yet) have any actual knowledge of the settings in which this book has been challenged and for what reasons, I would assume it has to do with the racial issues and the issue of rape. Though these topics are certainly sensitive ones, they are for the most part nothing that isn’t already discussed in the average high school history class. It seems to me that addressing them from Scout’s perspective might only make them even more suitable for a young audience: she is quite innocent for the most part and she is struggling to understand complicated issues without all the facts, since some aren’t considered appropriate for her to know. I wonder how someone who sought to censor To Kill a Mockingbird would respond to that fact. Unlike Holden, who though he is a young person, narrates the story in a manner that is in many ways older than his actual age, Scout almost always acts her age (though she is admittedly quite smart for that age). Again, I’m interested to know the specific reasons people try to censor this book and what their arguments are, because in my mind they’d be hard pressed to find many very convincing ones.