During the Civil Rights movement there were many obstacles to try and assure equal rights between the whites and blacks. With the unpersuadable community there was not much improvement. In the 1960s the legal system didn’t promise a place where everything was equal because the attitude that the community had.
The Fourteenth Amendment addresses the citizen rights of equal protection for each individual citizen. It shows that not one single person can be rejected of the “equal protection law” not even by the color of their skin (Legal Information Institute). The Amendment shows that there will be no discrimination within the states. With the Fourteenth Amendment, there was no slaves permitted (14th Amendment). This Amendment was the law that citizens were ordered to follow it, but in some cases like the Scottsboro Trial and the Tom Robinson trial, the law did not come into play. The whites were superior to the blacks and in the end it did not matter what the blacks were to say, it was not equal.
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A black man in the story named Tom Robinson was blamed for raping a white woman. Tom was not alone in the trial, Atticus Finch was there to defend him. Atticus taught both of his children, Scout and Jem, that discrimination was not right, even if they were a of a different race. Atticus said, "Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant (Lee 297)." Atticus is saying that taking a stand in a trial to defend Tom can be difficult, but he is doing