Examples Of Segregation In To Kill A Mockingbird

How would you react if you were falsely accused of a crime when all of your life you had been a good man. However, the catch was you were African American.  A white man’s word against your own. What would be running through your mind? This is exactly the kind of question that was running through Tom Robinson’s mind in this novel. During the 1930s, discrimination against targeted groups of society was prevalent, but small victories occurred to combat this issue in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. From Tom Robinson’s trial, to various stereotypes being broken, and the incidents that took place in Calpurnia’s church for colored people. All of these factors contribute to the purpose behind this novel’s meaning.

To Kill a Mockingbird took place during the 1930s, a period shortly after the American civil war in Maycomb County, Alabama, the deep south where black people suffered from racism and discrimination. In this book, Tom Robinson was accused of raping a white woman, which was something that he’s never done, even though all the evidence proved that he did not violate that white woman, Tom was judged guilty because he was a black man. Racism is presented throughout the entire book especially when Scout got teased by her family about Atticus taking Tom’s case, and the townspeople's perception about Atticus, as well as during the trial of Tom Robinson.

Discrimination: a noun that is defined as, “the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex”. There are many types of discrimination in To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird is a story that is taken place during the Great Depression . Scout is the main character and her father Atticus is defending a man named Tom Robinson, who is a Negro. There are three main topics that are discriminated in To Kill a Mockingbird. The three main topics that are discriminated are socioeconomics, gender, and most importantly, racism.

In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee segregation plays a huge role throughout the story. The Jim Crow Law also lay along these lines too. The Jim Crow Laws were laws that legalized segregation between blacks and whites. In Harper Lee’s book black and white people are often separated.

Racism is the belief that characteristics and abilities can be attributed to people simply based on their race and that some racial groups are superior to others. This has been a problem in our world forever. In to Kill a Mockingbird there are so many racist events and it reflects on the society as a whole till this day. The book setting was the 1930’s in a small county of Maycomb, where most people were racist and discriminatory. People think racism has died off, but it is still a huge problem. People choose to raise their children and teach them that racism is okay and that is how there is still racism today. There are so many statistics out there based on skin color that right there is even racist if everyone is equal why are there polls being taken separating people by the color of their skin?

In To Kill a Mockingbird, and in the world today there is racial and social inequality going on all around us. I am sure that there will never be true racial and social equality, but I think that it will get dramatically better. Just like it has gotten better since the 1930’s, which is the time that To Kill a Mockingbird is set in.

How different people in Maycomb view the issue of race affects how those people treat others.

In the 1962 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee, shows how racism can impact a society in a negative way through character construction because it is a reoccurring problem. In chapter 15; while Tom Robinson awaits his trial, he is transferred to the Maycomb jail. At ten o’clock pm, Atticus is on his way to the jailhouse; Scout, Jem, and Dill follow secretively. When Atticus got to the jail, he sat outside the doors and read; meanwhile the kids are hiding and spying on him. In the middle of Atticus is reading, four cars pull up, a group of men get out of the cars and tell Atticus to move away from the jailhouse doors. The men want Tom Robinson to get released; so that they can severely beat him and possibly murder him, simply because of the color of his skin.  The characters in To Kill a Mockingbird are all constructed differently. Some characters are constructed to be extremely closed-mindedly prejudice, while others are constructed to be open-minded and accepting of differences. Although the book is set in an earlier generation, concepts of the book are extremely relevant today.

The slave mindset of white families and slaveowners continued after the abolishment of slavery in 1865 in the form of segregation which was enforced by state and local governments through the use of Jim Crow laws. The levels of racism in the 1930s versus the lower levels of racism in the present correspond with the decline of Jim Crow laws beginning in the mid-20th century, which affected the societal status of black people, their economic status, and their continued effect on today’s laws.

The insightful novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, gives a window into the past of cruel race relations. The novel uses Tom Robinson’s court case, the most prominent example, along with others. Atticus, Scout’s father and lawyer, is defending an African American in court against the charge of rape of a white woman (Lee 100). He makes a cogent case demonstrating his innocence. The single reason Atticus loses his case and Tom goes to jail is due to the terrible tension between whites and blacks. In this setting of white supremacy, blacks are wrong in every aspect of life, and are always put less than second. When the character Aunt Alexandra pays visitation to Scout, Atticus and Jem she aims to dismiss Calpurnia, the black maid; the only motherly figure the two children have and love because Alexandra seems it be best to have them to be raised by a white woman. Atticus shoots down her intentions by saying she’s an integral member of their family and

The article Racial Segregation is making America Sick, published by The Atlantic magazine, discussed racial segregation in the Unites States of America and the many effects it has on the quality of life of civilians. The topic of the article related to one of the major themes in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird: Racism. Lee used racism as a major theme throughout the novel and as the main reason for the false accusation and persecution of one of the characters, Tom Robinson. This case heavily affected the Finch family and Tom Robinson's widow Helen. The man defending Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch, was affected by this case because it altered his reputation in the town and put his children's safety at risk. After agreeing to take on the case,

Brown vs. Board outlawed segregation in schools, but discrimination still remained in the school systems for years to come, and though segregation was outlawed in schools, people were still small minded and not open to change. Hostility between the two races were still very high, making the desegregation process much more dangerous. Owing to the fact of the new law, the desegregation process caused many schools to become very resistant, especially in the south. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Separate but Equal, along with the Ruby Bridges story: problems such as discrimination were very much present in the school systems. Not only did the case open the doors to change, it also opened up resistance even more hostilities.

The book How to Kill a Mockingbird explains life in the 1930’s for small southern towns. In the book, the small town of Maycomb County, Alabama shows a numerous amount of discrimination among and directed towards the general public. Some of the discrimination was not only occurring in small southern towns, but all over the United States. The social classes, religion, and racism are some of the types of discrimination that was present in this time period in American History. One of the major discrimination was the social standings of the town’s folks.

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, a girl named Scout grows up with a lawyer father, a black caretaker, Calpurnia, and a brother, Jem, during the 1930’s in the South. During the time period of the book, colored people and whites were separated, leading to racism. The racism led to a social divide between the blacks and whites in the South for over fifty years, with remnants of it today. After Scout realizes the social inequality, and how little opportunities blacks have in the Southern communities, Scouts begins to understand how whites have kept blacks from these opportunities. Atticus then is given the job of defending a black man in court, leading to hatred from the community for helping the colored man. During the case, the community starts to treat Scout’s family as a colored family, giving Scout more insight to what it feels like to be colored, yet the black folks do not want to be affiliated with the whites. During this book, To Kill a

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, discusses many problems in the south around the 1930s. Atticus and his children live in Maycomb Alabama, struggling to get by financially.In the town of Maycomb Alabama, Harper Lee explains and tells the stories connected to harsh racism, segregation, and injustice. The main story in this book expresses an unfair tria for a african american man accused of rape by a white women. He gets taken advantage of my many people in this book because of his race, this is one of many examples that i will discuss in more detail. Racism has been occurring for many many decades, it seems to be way worse in the south and segregation has played a huge role in the act of racism. Most of the southern towns including Maycomb have strict laws and rules to abide by for segregation and racism witch mentally and physically affects the people of different race everywhere. The topic of racism is very important to me and i believe that there needs to be actions to help and come close to fixing it. The main racism point i will cover in this writing is segregation, Tom Robinson, Dolphis Raymond, Calpurnia, Atticus and his kids.