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To Kill A Mockingbird Racism Quotes

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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the theme is racism. Throughout the town of Maycomb, African-Americans are mistreated and judged unfairly. One event that shows this theme is when Tom Robinson, a black man, is being accused of raping a white girl named Mayella Ewell. This shows the theme because even though Atticus Finch, a white man who is defending Tom Robinson, proves that Tom Robinson is innocent, the jury still pleads him guilty because they believe “that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women” (page 273). Another event that shows this theme is when Mr. Dolphus Raymond, a wealthy white man, marries a black woman and has mulatto children. In this scene,
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