To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee: An Analysis

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The book “To Kill a mockingbird” is focused on a lawsuit court case that takes place in a small Alabama town called Maycomb, where a black man named Tim Robinson is wrongly accused of sexually assaulting a white girl. In the book Harper Lee explores the racial injustices found within the schooling system, as well as the town's’ attitudes of the town, and in the legal system.
The schooling system in Maycomb takes place around the Depression era where segregation between the whites and blacks were just doing their own thing. In the first couple of chapters of “To Kill a mockingbird” the phrase racial equality is used quite a bit by the author. within the education system and that the state lawfully requires all white children to go to school