Discrimination In To Kill A Mockingbird

The History Of Racism

Anyone who has seen war first hand can see that minorities have been treated different during times of distress. Japanese were treated different because after the attack the Americans were prejudice towards the rest of the legal Japanese citizens. They were prejudiced towards them because they were scared that all of them were criminals waiting to cause harm. We also see this in the book To KIll A Mockingbird during the Tom Robinson trial, because the white people thought that all African Americans were dangerous criminals.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor America took action by rounding up 120,000 Japanese Americans.(“Keaton”). At these camps they were treated poorly and given the bare minimum to survive. The Americans did this in response to the fear that they had of the Japanese. They were scared that all of the Japanese were terrorists and that all of them were plotting attacks on America. We have seen this repeated over and over again in history. America saw this when white people segregated African Americans. White people did this because they feared that all black people were dangerous criminals and

This attempt to hurdle the struggle of discrimination did not work because Military Police would not let see Blacks see combat until 1944.(¨White¨). The white people were still scared to get over their fear of the African Americans. The whites wanted to remain the superior or majority race over the blacks. The discrimination did not end after the war, by the end of the war 294 medals had been given out but not one was given to an African American.(¨White¨). When the war was over black soldiers faced violence and hostility, while the white soldiers were treated like heroes. This just shows that the whites had an unsettling fear of the blacks because they pre judged them and said that they were all the same violent