Examples Of Jim Crow Laws In To Kill A Mockingbird
“Many of the family’s meals consisted of potato pancakes and french fries because potatoes were cheap and filling” (Mccabe). This is a quote from the Great Depression article in which many people were out of work and had no food. This is the time period Harper Lee has chosen to write her book To Kill A Mockingbird. In this paper there will be many connections to the Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and the Scottsboro trials.
The Jim Crow laws were one of many historical events that appeared in To Kill A Mockingbird. The Jim Crow laws were a series of laws against African Americans in the mid 1960s (Pilgrim). one example of a Jim Crow law is that a black person could not accuse a White person of lying (Pilgrim). Another law is that a Black person
could not comment upon the appearance of a White female (Pilgrim). The Jim Crow laws are found in To Kill A Mockingbird. In To Kill A Mockingbird Calpurnia goes to an all Black church because of the Jim Crow laws (Lee 134). There was segregation in the courthouse. Blacks were in the balcony and Whites were below (Lee 187). In To Kill A Mockingbird Tom Robinson a Black man had to use Curtice titles when speaking to a white man, but the White man did not (Lee 217). I think that the Jim Crow laws were a big part of american history and it was a truly an awful time in American history.
Mob mentality is another historical event that occurred in To Kill a Mockingbird. According to( Clay Routledge, Ph.D.) Mob mentality is when a group of people who has the same beliefs come together and they usually are mad about something that is happening in their lives(Clay Routledge, Ph.D.). Mob mentality is also a form of pure pressure. Mob mentality is a
The Jim Crow laws were one of many historical events that appeared in To Kill A Mockingbird. The Jim Crow laws were a series of laws against African Americans in the mid 1960s (Pilgrim). one example of a Jim Crow law is that a black person could not accuse a White person of lying (Pilgrim). Another law is that a Black person
could not comment upon the appearance of a White female (Pilgrim). The Jim Crow laws are found in To Kill A Mockingbird. In To Kill A Mockingbird Calpurnia goes to an all Black church because of the Jim Crow laws (Lee 134). There was segregation in the courthouse. Blacks were in the balcony and Whites were below (Lee 187). In To Kill A Mockingbird Tom Robinson a Black man had to use Curtice titles when speaking to a white man, but the White man did not (Lee 217). I think that the Jim Crow laws were a big part of american history and it was a truly an awful time in American history.
Mob mentality is another historical event that occurred in To Kill a Mockingbird. According to( Clay Routledge, Ph.D.) Mob mentality is when a group of people who has the same beliefs come together and they usually are mad about something that is happening in their lives(Clay Routledge, Ph.D.). Mob mentality is also a form of pure pressure. Mob mentality is a