Racism In 1930s

In the opening pages of her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee wrote these words: “There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with…but it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.” Lee alludes to the seemingly inadequate reassurance that United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt provided during his inauguration speech at the onset of the Great Depression, while also describing the melancholy and hopelessness that many citizens felt. This sentiment, however, was not just confined to the United States—the impact of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 had also reverberated throughout Latin America, and

Racism is a disturbing and brutal topic. People over look racism because they don't feel that their opinion is going to affect the community. The question often asked is “How has racism changed” and “Has racism gotten better or worse?” I am on the fence with this particular topic. Today, we have no more segregation in the United States, this means no more separate water fountains, bathrooms, schools, blacks don't have to sit at the back of busses, etc. Although, there has been more brutal acts of racially motivated acts against all races. Obviously there's still racism, it’s not just going to disappear, it’s always going to be here. It’s all about people’s opinions, it’s not like a fact that can be proven wrong. Racism has changed in many different ways since the 1930s.

Racism, in today’s world is not as frequent as it was in the 1900’s. Racism in the 1900’s was incredibly widespread, and the majority of white Americans were racially prejudiced against the people of color. Even though racism was widespread in the 1900’s it is currently grimaced upon and not exceedingly widespread at all. People of color are nowadays not cast off in today’s world, but are accepted like any other person. Racial disparity has been a notorious predicament in associations to moral ethics for long periods of time.

The character Dolphus Raymond shows the readers inequality Whites show towards African Americans throughout the Great Depression. Dolphus Raymond’s life shows the reader that him and his family are discriminated from the other families in Maycomb. In Dolphus’ earlier life, he married an African American woman and had “mixed” children; in the book it stated his children have no true home, “Colored folks won’t have ‘em because they’re half white; white folks won’t have ‘em because they’re colored,” (Lee, 1960, 214). The discrimination in Maycomb is highlighted by the creation of Dolphus Raymond’s kids; they do not belong in any community during this time period. Neither Dolphus or his family can fit into a perfect way of life. The

In the year of 1959 numerous things happened, as well as several things being released. It could surprise younger people of our generation; the way things worked, what happened, and even how many things were priced. Though the US abolished slavery in 1865, (and in 1870 African American men were given the right to vote though it was not until almost a century later that this was fully recognized across the US.) the US was still a fairly racist place, an example is that it white and black people lived in their own little area(A white street, and vica versa). This was not enforced by any law obviously so a black family could very well live in ‘white’ neighborhood. It would just earn lot attention, and controversy from other people.

Gender roles are another cause of social divisions and inequality the Harper Lee teaches about. Scout defies gender roles and she is looked down upon by many of the women in her community for doing so. Scout’s Aunt Alexandra is one woman who looks down upon scout for this. “Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants,” (108). Aunt Alexandra believes ladies are not permitted to be taking place in activities that require pants. She disapproves of how Scout likes to participate in activities she sees as unladylike. This shows the inequality in this society due to gender roles. Another woman who challenges Scouts appearance as a lady is her neighbor Miss Stephanie. When Aunt Alexandra has a

Do many Americans know what happened in the 1930s? Many know about the racism that was long ago but they don’t know what was going on at the time. Racism is discrimination against another race, racism in the 1930s affected colored people and was unfair. The government made it equal by segregation.

The book “To Kill a Mockingbird” By Harper Lee, takes place during the Civil Rights Movement. Alabama has many colored and mixed skin toned people during this time period. All through the progress of the Civil Rights these people are still treated differently. In Maycomb there is a big segregation between skin color and the lower and higher class of jobs. Women are also treated as lower class people but, not as much as colored people. To Kill a Mockingbird, racism, classism, and sexism are a big factor and major key in the town of Maycomb.

The number one thing that society is best at is tearing one’s life apart for the most ludicrous reasons. In this great novel that Harper Lee had written, To Kill A Mockingbird, she had made it pretty clear that the story took place during the Great Depression in the 1930’s. It was clear that it had taken place during this time because of how she had explained the setup of things. Nobody in the town she lived in had a lot of money, and as she had explained, she just grew up in a small, poor town. Of course, the Great Depression had played a major role in this factor, though. As Lee had explained in the beginning of the book, ‘“Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it… There was no hurry,

Throughout the book, Maycomb came with deep and strong prejudice towards colored people, which was also an undeniable fact in the rest of southern states. The American southern states in 1930s were one of the areas where discrimination over African Americans was prevalent. Since the Civil War, the legal status of black people had been rising in economic and politic, but mostly in a transformation from slaves to “second-class” citizens. There were bans on interracial marriage between whites and blacks, and other legal restraints that imposed openly discrimination on colored people. There were numerous plots in the story that described verbal and physical assaults to blacks, by the white community and even by the colored people themselves. For example, when Jem, the older brother of Scout, the leading character, talked about a scary story that frightened Scout, she told Dill, Jem and Scout ‘s best friend, “Don’t believe a word of him, Dill”.

During the 19th century, racism was an established and widely accepted ideology throughout the Antebellum South. Both Frederick Law Olmsted and John C. Calhoun portray typical racist ideology during the 19th century in Antebellum South. In his travelogue of the South, “A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy”, Olmsted advocated for the free soil movement. On the other hand, Calhoun advocated for slavery in his 1837 speech, “The ‘Positive Good’ of Slavery” before the United States Senate. The free soil movement was an anti-slavery movement that in fact did not advocate for equal rights among blacks and whites, but advocated that free men on free soil was a superior system to traditional slavery. Surprisingly, anti-slavery was much different to abolitionism. The goal of abolitionism was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the establishment of equal rights among blacks and whites. The goal of anti-slavery was the eventual emancipation of all slaves with the understanding that blacks were inferior to whites. Although both advocated for two distinct social standards for the African American people, both had incorporated within their ideology the racist concept that African Americans and their ancestors were inferior to white Americans.

The Differences in Racism In the 1920’s racism was very open and the treatment of white men and white women were different than the treatment of black men and black women. The majority of racism happened in the south, while also across the nation. With the “KKK,” (Ku Klux Klan) who originated in Tennessee in 1866, The Klan employed various methods for terrorizing and intimidating the group is completely against blacks and the “KKK” was at first just a social group, but when blacks started gaining more and more rights, that social group became murderers and was the most feared organization in the U.S. The “KKK” is also still here till this day in some places in the United States but they are not as broad as they were back in their prime.

In this article there was affect that affected the whole story. This affect had to do with the great depression and racism back in the 1940s. People did not like black people. They would separate them from there color and the blacks had less rights

In To Kill A MockingBird, Injustice is detracted in the lifestyle of everyday lives of coloured folks in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. The segregation; distribution of resources; the pursuit of happiness are clearly demonstrated in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. The time area is during the Great Depression (Lee), the folks in Maycomb, was a small community with interesting people that keeps the town lively.

Racism is bad now, but imagine it in the 1930’s. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, showed what could happen when racism is involved in the world. A southern town in Maycomb, Alabama was suffering through the Great Depression. A six year old girl, Scout Finch, told the story about her family and growing up in Maycomb. Her father, Atticus was an attorney trying to prove a black man innocent of raping a white woman, but the trial ran on. There were many examples of racism in the book, including when Calpurnia, the family housekeeper, took Scout and Jem to an African-American church. Next was when Scout realized how ignorant their neighbor Mrs. Dubose was. Along with them, Bob Ewell was very racist in the book, creating lots of tension between the characters.