Examples Of Discrimination In To Kill A Mockingbird

Discrimination and Segregation against African Americans

Ever since the colonial era, conflicts between whites and blacks has gotten worse. During the 1900’s discrimination against African Americans in the southern parts of the United States has become even more widespread. By 1907, every southern state required racial segregation on trains, in churches, schools,hotels, restaurants, theaters, and other public places.In the Novel To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee discusses how in Maycomb County Alabama the discrimination and segregation against blacks from whites was not good at all. She shows how white people wanted to get rid of African Americans so bad that they would basically do anything to do exactly that, for example, an African American

The racial tension between the blacks and whites in Maycomb County was not great, Lee shows the racial and discrimination between them in a trial against a black man Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson was wrongly accused of beating and raping a white woman. Tom’s lawyer Atticus Finch was trying to show the jury that there was evidence that Tom could not have beat up and choke a white women because he had a crippled arm and you needed two arms to choke someone. Also, the person that punched the women had to have been a left handed person because she got a black eye in her right eye and if the attacker was a left handed person then it was not Tom Robinson because he was a right handed person. Lee shows that during the trial the jury did not care how much evidence there was that Tom Robinson did not attack the white women, it was because he was black and the people in Maycomb County did not like black people. Lee showed that the discrimination between whites and blacks was so bad that the whites would do practically anything to get rid of the blacks in Maycomb County and by doing this they would try to accuse black of doing this