The film “To Kill a Mockingbird” addressed many racial issues that occurred during the 1960s. It showed in many cases how African Americans adapted to life after the passing of the civil rights movement, some examples of segregation, and some racial issues that are still present to this day. This film did a tremendous job encouraging the audience to “Climb in someone else’s skin” and see what life would be like from their point of view. “To Kill a Mockingbird” showed what life was like for many African Americans after the passing of the civil rights movement. Many women became maids and cooks and men continued to work in fields for cheap income. The first scene of an African American is when a woman announces that breakfast is ready for the white family to eat. The woman then comes out and makes the young girl change her shirt. Another African American woman is sitting on the front porch and appears to be snapping green beans to prepare for a meal. She isn’t really addressed at all just sitting there in the background …show more content…
It is most obvious in the the case of the court house. White individuals stayed down low and all the African Americans had to go upstairs. All individuals upstairs where using their hats as fans because it was hot due to the large amounts of individuals in the building and the natural tendency of heat rising. This scene really summed up what segregation was like during this time period. They often received the worst of everything while whites got the nicer amenities. It also was considered an unusual and shameful for a white individual to be romantically involved with black individual. This is addressed in the film in court when the women that was supposedly raped was lying because she was shameful for having tried to seduce an African American. In that current time period that was considered unspeakable and in some cases individuals still see mixed race marriage as unusual in todays