The Pursuit of Happiness America, home of the free and the courageous few. Americans strive for a better life throughout the years. We’re constantly evolving the image of the American dream. Not only do we alter in terms of the country itself ;we the people have changed throughout the years. However, one thing that seems to stay the same is racism and prejudice. With Americans they always try chase the future forgetting that history does repeat itself. The quote,” It was the worst of times, it was the best time,” from the novel A Tale of Two Cities describes America history superbly. We might have met the impossible in terms of technological but we have not fully changed how we the American people see each other as different in each other's …show more content…
The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the few literary masterpieces that shows injustice of racial discrimination that existed during the Great depression. Although the author, Harper Lee, claims this book isn't an autobiography she does admit that it does depict the unmitigated trail of the Scottsboro case that happen in her home town. The Scottsboro case played an immeasurable part in undermining the structures of white supremacy in the South and even throughout the nation. To encapsulated this appall case, it's simply a case of racial profiling when nine African American males were falsely accused of raping two white women. Even the nine young men were purely innocent their all white jury thought otherwise and for that they were exempt from their freedom and was given life in prison at such a young age. Although they were granted their exonerated it wasn't until over fifty years later it was granted. And by then only three of the nine were still alive and by then most of their life have been stripped from them blindly. This case is the inspiration for the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, case cause just like the Scottsboro case Tom was accused of raping a white women and with a all white jury found him guilty and with that his life ended just like these other nine