Similarities Between To Kill A Mockingbird And Only The Innocent Were Accused

“We, as human beings must be willing to accept people different from ourselves” This quote can relate to two passages, To Kill A Mockingbird and “Only the Innocent were Accused”. In both of these passages an issue with racism occurs and the black(s) are accused of rape. People in Maycomb (TKAM) and in Jackson County Alabama (OTAWI) did not accept the, what they call, “negroes” at all and were unfair in many ways. People such as Atticus and the Communists defended these “negroes” who were accused of rape. In To Kill A Mockingbird, a man named Tom Robinson was accused of raping a white woman and in “Only the Innocent were Accused”, a group of 9 boys called “Scottsboro boys” were accused of raping two white woman. In both To Kill a Mockingbird and ¨Only the Accused Were Innocent¨ there are examples of people that are willing to do the right thing.In To Kill A Mockingbird it states “Link, that boy might go to the chair,but he’s not going till the truth’s told.” Atticus’s voice was even. “And you know what the truth is.””(Lee 195) A group of guys came to Atticus

In To Kill A Mockingbird it states “Scout Finch’s daddy defends niggers [...] “Do you defend niggers Atticus?”, “ Of Course I do. Don’t say nigger,Scout.” (Lee 99) This text line is saying how Atticus has been asked to defend Tom Robinson.He tells Scout that he must argue it to uphold his sense of self-respect and that all because Tom is black, that doesn’t mean he's odd,he’s just like them. A quote from “Only the Innocent were Accused” that can relate to this line from To Kill A Mockingbird is “No group worked harder or longer to free the “boys” than he American Communist Party[...] editorial support.” In this line from“Only the Innocent were Accused” , The American Communist Party was defending the innocent “boys” cause they were judged for being negroes and were charged for a case they did not commit such as