Civil Rights In To Kill A Mockingbird

In To Kill a Mockingbird the story takes place in Alabama during the Great Depression and is narrated by a little girl named Jean Louise Finch or better known throughout the book as Scout. Scout, Jem( Scout’s brother), and Dill(a friend) spend there time dabbling in acting out different scenarios, which eventually leads to their curiosity in Boo Radley, the local town shut in. All the while Atticus Finch(Jem and Scout’s father), is taking on the case of an African American man, by the name of Tom Robinson, who is being accused of beating up and raping Mayella Ewell, a very poor a white women. The Help takes place in the 1960s in Mississippi, it tells of black maids, mainly Aibileen and Minny, working in white homes, and of Eugenia “Skeeter”
In The Help the Jim Crow laws are mentioned a lot throughout the movie and black people are reminded that everything is separate but equal. Lynchings were finally abolished in the 1960s, but that didn’t stop the KKK from taking lives, and African Americans faced prejudices every day. The Civil Rights Movement was taking place during this time, which eventually lead to initiatives such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. In To Kill a Mockingbird and in The Help there are good people who don’t see the color of someone’s skin and will treat them like a person, such as Atticus Finch, and Skeeter, who try their very best to do what they think is right. Atticus Finch doesn’t succeed in his story, but the family and friends of Tom Robinson were grateful for his hard work. Skeeter wants to show the stories of the maids and it ends up being a success, once she has to cut certain people out of her life, because they can’t see past their own ignorance. Aibileen, a black women, is the narrator throughout most of the movie, unlike To Kill a Mockingbird where Scout, a young white child is the