Theme Of Prejudice In Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

Paragraph 1 When Harper Lee originally wrote To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960, major movements were beginning to taking place in the african american community. Only 3 years later Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the famous I have a dream speech, and social norms change. In a decade it became frowned apron to call someone the n word and it seemed as if the 2 major races in the US would live together in peace, without discrimination. We almost had it, however we failed; we never correctly mixed the two races the way mr King thought we would. As we can see in these novels, documentary’s, and even high school human geography class, there are still white and black neighborhoods. We lack the diversity of a community with a wide spread of races,

Separate but equal was allowed and was a law, yet as I read A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, set in 1959, there a distinct change In the book as well as the actual time period. the african American community where looking for equality, the mix that they despised decades earlier. Walter says “Mama – sometimes when I’m downtown and I pass them cool-quiet-looking restaurants where them white boys are sitting back and talking ‘bout things…sitting there turning deals worth millions of dollars…sometimes I see guys don’t look much older than me”. As I read*, I could newly feel his longing for an equal shot at life, for him to have the same opportunities as his white counterparts. But no, as we know there was little hope for him, and as history shows the cycle of poverty will continue for the

The film American Denial attempts to give us an answer based off the finding of Gunnar Myrdal in his book An American Dilemma. Myrdal states “The Negro problem, like all other political problems, is fundamentally a moral issue. This is realism, not idealism. Those of my colleagues who believe that they are particularly 'hard boiled' because they overlook the fact that human beings are struggling for their consciences are simply unrealistic.” With this in mind we can apply how our government dealt with the civil rights issue, as it had been put aside until the civil rights act of 1964. Now years later we are dealing with what few could interpret as the continuation of the movement, with the Black Lives Matter protest and continued civil laws being