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These novels both take place in small, racist towns. This leads to discriminatory actions occurring, including a court case in both novels. The court case in To kill a Mockingbird deals with a rape victim and her extremely racist father who blames a completely innocent man for his daughter's rape. This would likely not happen in a town against discrimination and segregation. In Mississippi Trial, 1955 the court case centers around a boy who was killed for whistling at a white woman.
Through the 1940s-1960s Decatur, Mississippi regularly had new about African Americans being murdered, lynched, hung, or beaten. Usually for showing interest in a white woman, talking back to white men, or even simple things like not giving up your bus seat or voting. So the case of Medgar Evers wasn’t very surprising to the majority of the community except the black community. This also didn’t bring much of a surprise to the state government. Byron DeLa Beckwith wasn’t convicted on his first two trials even though there was enough evidence against him.
Ted Bundy's Crime Theodore "Ted" Bundy was born November 24, 1946, and was executed in Starke, Florida at the Florida State Prison. On January 24, 1989, around 7 a.m. that morning, he was put to death in "Old Sparky" which is Florida's most known electric chair. Bundy started his murderous rampage around 1974 and admitted to thirty-six murders, but some thought there was much more, the exact number will forever remain unknown. Ted Bundy was charged with murder in four different states, Washington, Utah, Colorado and lastly Florida. The time period that Bundy's murdering spree went from 1974 to 1979.
This is a meaningful and sad story of a black family living in Mississippi during the 1930’s, being treated unfairly. In this book Mildred D. Taylor shows what it was like to be black during the 1930’s from her own family’s experiences. Cassie Logan is not a normal 9 year old girl. She is very confident in herself which leads to trouble because she will do bad things with her confidence. She is not afraid to stand up for something that is wrong, but some people who don’t agree with her threaten her and her family during this book.
The Similarities between The scottsboro case and To Kill a Mockingbird From books to real life cases, one can see the American system of injustice towards the blacks of America and its lopsided juries. A system of which if you’re born of the wrong skin, you are judged with no crime being committed. A country where when you have a dark complexion, you are guilty until proven innocent. In To Kill a Mockingbird and Scottsboro boys, we meet different figures who all in common, are prejudice, racist, and ignorant. Even so, we still meet people who stand for what is right, especially since the evidence points towards their innocence.
Mississippi Trial, 1955 Racism affected the opinions, actions, and way of life during the 20th century. Hiram Hillburn was born and raised in a racist, Mississippi home. Once his Grama died, he moved back home with his dad with completely different opinions than Grampa. He goes back to Grampas after a few years to visit one of the biggest tragedies of that time took place; The murder and kidnapping of Emmit Till.
Moody’s first time of hearing of the obstacles her race faced was with Emmett Till’s death. People in the community knew Emmett Till to be a soft spoken, respectful individual. Till’s death shook the Negro community and caused Moody to have a “new fear” be known to her which was “the fear of being killed just because [she] was black” (Moody 132). It was not until this event that Moody truly understood the implications she faced due to the color of her skin and her appearance. Furthermore, as the hate crimes towards African Americans began to rise across Centerville, Mississippi the African American community objections towards crimes began to die down.
Lawlessness was what ruled the lands until order was settled in, through the system. As a way to control, officials began utilizing criminal law to their advantage, by forcing freed slaves back to captivity, under the state’s control. With no actual prison, politicians, businessmen, and sheriffs took it upon themselves to use the prisoners for what they thought better. Injustice and violence against the African American population was popular in many states, especially in the South, where groups not only used political influence to downgrade the rights of African Americans but also, arson, intimidation and lynching. This might have been one of the “better” moments that characterized Mississippi’s racial injustice.
One major theme authors universally write their stories around concern the power of human relationships. Though writers may take different paths to communicate this, the strength that comes from these unique connections that exist between individuals resonates with everyone. Authors clearly articulate through a myriad of rhetorical devices that maintaining relationships is a fundamental part in personal growth and allows for a stronger sense of self. In finding companionship and comradery. people become capable of evolving and arriving at better understandings of who they are.
Mississippi’s history makes the state what it is today. From Indians to Europeans, to people moving west to find a home and land, the growth of the state was made in stages that spans hundreds of years. The past has affected the modern
The Help focuses on the story of a upper class writer that tries to find her social identity as well as others. With help from the maids of Jackson, Mississippi, they all overcome stereotypes and discrimination. Aibileen's story was the foundation idea for Skeeter because she had been through so much in her life that she decided to tell her story. The fact that she was black, and a woman the role of a maid for the upper class families were passed down from generations so she saw her fair share of being looked down upon. Being a part of the Black/African African race, there were certain things
Skeeter is seen to develop in two different ways: a young woman who doesn 't have marriage as a first priority anymore and a woman who later sees an injustice to the black help. Skeeter is a white socialite who just graduated from college with a degree in writing. She came back to Jackson Mississippi with the idea of starting to write for book publishing companies but arrives home only for her mother to question her about marriage. Upon the many
American society in the South during the 1930s was full of prejudice, injustice, and racism towards African-Americans, known as “negroes” to white people. Segregation caused whites to treat blacks very poorly as a result of prejudice. One result of this was a justice system unfairly favored for whites. Harper Lee displays these ideas of prejudice, injustice, and racism in her story To Kill a Mockingbird. She does this through the events involving Boo Radley, Tom Robinson’s trial, Aunt Alexandra’s actions, and the visit to Calpurnia’s church.
Miranda Fricker dissects and examines the problems of testimonial justice and injustice, in her book, Epistemic Injustice, Power and the Ethics of Knowing. By using the characters of Marge Sherwood in The Talented Mr. Ripley and Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird, Fricker draws in her audience and succinctly identifies two critical components to testimonial injustices. After examining her work, I feel her view of testimonial justice is able to be defended because people are not born to be discriminatory. Rather a person’s community and social interactions shape their development of testimonial justice, but there are ways to lessen a person’s testimonial injustice. Fricker’s argues that familiarity with people of different social identities