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How Does Harper Lee Describe Life In The 1930s

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Harper Lee uses the novel To Kill a Mockingbird to describe how life was in the 1930s. Harper Lee uses her novel to explain about real life problems in the 1930s to explain the
Scottsboro case by using the 6th amendment and the 8th amendment, the education of African Americans, and the stock market crash to relate to her novel. The life of African American who are being judge by all whites. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird some examples of racism are the Tom Robinson case and how the jury treated him unfairly because he was black and they were white and this relates to real life because of the Scottsboro case which happen to have two white women accuse nine African Americans to have raped them and they were judge

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