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To Kill A Mocking Bird and Racism
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To Kill A Mocking Bird and Racism 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is a perfect book to use as an example to show what racism was in America in the 20's and 30's. In America, life was very different in the 20s and 30s. Sure, televisions were just appearing and technology in general wasn't nearly as advanced as it is today. These points however, though relevant, are not relevant to my point. No, I'm really focusing on racism in these first few decades of the century. 'To Kill a Mockingbird' has a town called Maycomb in it, and this town, is stereo typically what a town in the southern United States would have been like in these early years. In the book, as in real life back then, racism was a part of every day life. In some states, slaves still existed even. It was a dark and cruel world for...
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