Everyone in America is not truly equal. All Americans have their own opinion of what people should look like. My definition of equality is that everyone should be treated the same way as everyone else. Equality has changed over the years. One of the ways that it has changed is the slavery. The Americans owned slaves Americans own black people as slaves One of the books we have read was “ To Kill A Mockingbird”. They had a trial of a black man named Tom. Mayrla was the one that took Tom to court for rape. Mayella saids that He ask her if she needed any help. The was that Mayella described it was that Tom used his left hand. Tom;’x left hand was disabled so he could not use it. The court only cared about what Mayella said. They did not care