Examples Of Jim Crow Laws In To Kill A Mockingbird

In To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the first historical references is the Jim Crow law. Jim Crow was a system that assembles inequality between the races. Some people thought the laws were needed because Whites were superior to Blacks in all important ways. An example of the law is Blacks could not touch a White female because the Black risked being accused of rape (Pilgrim 1). Another example of the law is a Black male could not offer his hand with a White male because it implied being socially equal (Pilgrim 1). Third example is under no circumstance was a Black male to offer to light the cigarette of a White male because that gesture implied intimacy (Pilgrim 2). If the laws were not followed, violence must be used to keep Blacks at the bottom