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Examples Of Jim Crow Laws In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Don’t Judge a book by its cover. Boo Radley in To Kill A Mockingbird is an example of how people judge others off of what they hear. The image Americans give Muslims because of ISIS is another example of how humans judge. Jim crow laws were made to separate the white and black people. The laws judged the black people, they made them feel like trash compared to the white people. In To Kill A Mockingbird Boo Radley wouldn’t come out of his house until the end of the book when he saved Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell. People from Maycomb made stories up of Boo Radley like he was a cat eater and night prowler, and that he looked like a skeleton like ghost. Scout, Jem and Dill wanted to know what Boo Radley looked like and to figure out if the stories told through the county were real. Boo Radley when he was young got into trouble with the law and he stabbed his father in the leg with scissors. For punishment of all of the trouble he had caused his father locked him in the house for fifteen years. His brother Nathan took …show more content…

White people thought black people weren’t smart and they were simply trash compared to them. One Jim Crow stated that you have to take a reading test before you can vote. A white people would give a black person the bible to read and if you got something wrong they would say you can’t vote. If it was a white person they would give them a little card and it said something like “the cat climbed up the tree.” If they got something wrong they would allow them to vote. White people would judge the black people on their hygiene and their education and pretty much anything to stop them from doing something. They also had separated bathrooms and water fountains. White people thought black people were gross and disgusting and couldn't touch the items that they did or they would get a disease or die. White people and whoever made these laws should be ashamed of themselves for doing

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