How Did Prejudice Occur In The 1930's

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The prejudice that happened in the 1930’s was basically the same as the 1960’s, but a little more severe. In the 1930’s, the prejudice was that blacks were inferior to the whites and if anything between blacks and whites happened, the white person was always right. No matter if it was a white guy and a black guy, white guy and a black girl or any other combination the whites were right in every instance. In the 1960’s the blacks had started to get more equality in cases and they started to win more which helped them towards equality. In the 1960’s, the blacks had gained more rights than they had in the 1930’s. In the 1930’s, the blacks were basically as low as you could get, and had no rights at all. In the 1960’s, the African Americans had gained more rights, and were getting paid more for their jobs. They were also allowed to work for whites and go paid. In the 1930’s, blacks would not go to …show more content…

In the 1930’s, she probably would have been sent to jail, or she would have been put in a noose hanging from a tree. The roles of African Americans did change a lot from the time of To Kill a Mockingbird to the time of The Help. Back in the 1930’s during the time of To Kill a Mockingbird, African American women worked some for whites as maids, but didn’t get paid very much. During the time of The Help, almost all women worked as maids, and got paid more than they had in the 1930. One example of the prejudice that whites got their way over blacks in all instances in the book To Kill a Mockingbird, was that a no good, white trash girl who claimed that a disabled African American man raped her, even though he most likely didn’t, and with a bunch of convincing evidence that she lied and Tom Robinson was indeed not guilty, they still found him guilty and convicted