the historical event of the Scottsboro trials. Nine boys were falsely accused of raping two women and were placed in the county jail. A few days later evidence proved that the boys were not guilty, but it took years to get them all out. The two women even said that they did not rape them, but they still remained in jail. The Scottsboro trial was en example of over the top and unnecessary racism (Anderson). In the novel, Harper Lee uses these ideas to connect the Scottsboro trial to the novel. The Tom
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until 1941 (McCabe 12). The Great Depression and other various events in the 1930’s inspired Harper Lee’s world renown novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. Three events that profoundly correspond to the novel are the Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and the Scottsboro trials. The first influence on Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird are the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws are a set of anti-Black laws in order to keep whites on the top of the racial caste system (Pilgrim). The Jim Crow laws vary from ordering
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were homeless and jobless (McCabe 12). There were multiple factual events that were significantly influential in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. This novel references many historical events, including the Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and the Scottsboro trials. The first influence on Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, was the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws were cruel laws set up to put
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Imagine living in a world where the amount of rights one got was chosen and determined by their own skin color, and there was different schools, churches, and neighborhood depending on ones race. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee used different historical references and connections about the inequality between blacks and whites, and some of the struggles faced by both races. Included, are connections to the Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and issues of racism during that era. In To Kill A Mockingbird
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Racial discrimination is prejudice towards a person due to his or her race. Discrimination occurs due to the fact that one race believes that they are better than the other races. Most kinds of discrimination are violence, segregation, and biased judgment. Another kind of discrimination is stereotyping, which is where a certain race of people are all believed to have a particular idea or way that they act, and have an oversimplified image. My chosen story is “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
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prove that Tom Robinson is not guilty, but the court still says he is guilty. The court said he is guilty because all the whites are like a mob; they think and act based off of what others are doing. Mob mentality can be directly connected to the Scottsboro
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Harper Lee based her novel off of her childhood and her father was a lawyer just like Atticus. As well, Harper Lee never expected To Kill A Mockingbird to become such a success (Lazendorfer). (http://mentalfloss.com/article/62868/11-facts-about-kill-mockingbird). The author of To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper lee, used historical events to establish her novel. Jim Crow, mob mentality, and the issues of racism have relations to the time period. To begin, one similarity between Harper Lee’s novel and
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you didn’t really belong to that society? That’s how African-Americans felt during the 1960’s. That’s how they were treated in the book “To Kill A Mockingbird”, in the trial of Emmett Till, and that of Scottsboro trial. In the book, “To Kill A Mockingbird”, the trials of Emmett Till and Scottsboro, prejudice is displayed by the acts of hate and misunderstanding because of someone’s color. In the book, “To Kill A Mockingbird”, people of color (blacks) were the majority that were treated unfairly
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The Civil War brought significant changes for African Americans, as they were freed from slavery. However, rather than achieving complete legal, political, and economic equality during the Reconstruction Era, which lasted from the end of the Civil War until 1877, African Americans continued to be second class citizens. As will be argued in this paper, African Americans experienced hardship and significant discrimination after 1877 due to racist laws, social, economic, and educational inequality;
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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
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