Atticus Finch's Impact On Society

February is Black History month and blacks impacted our history by what they did and the lives that they changed. All blacks that lived back then went through unimaginable things, like slavery, segregation and racism. Martin Luther King Jr. had awful experiences, he was making speeches against the whites in order to free the blacks from slavery in result of him doing this, his house got burned down. He fought for blacks to do activities with whites, eat with them and even live in the same neighborhoods. The time that he lived was related to the same time the Finches, Ewells, Cunninghams, and the Black community in To Kill a Mockingbird.

The Finches went to an all white school with all white friends and in a white neighborhood with a black cook. The Finches were a typical white family, and they looked down on blacks, but back then it was normal, but Atticus Finch was the exception in their family, he was representing a black man in court, by doing this he put his family's life, his life, his job, his career,and everything that was important to him. Their cook was a black lady named Calpurnia, Atticus thought of her as family, but when Aunt Alexandra came to visit, she couldn’t believe the way Atticus treated her, he
Bob Ewell the head of the Ewell family, is thought to be the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations, Burris Ewell was in Scout’s first grade class, but Miss Caroline sent him home because he had lice, but everyone knows the Ewells only go to school on the first day, in order for the police to be off their backs. They were a dirty, poor family, Burris was nasty and dirty, he smelt bad, and the back of his neck was black with dirt. In relation to the black community they were just as low as any other black