Examples Of Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird

In the 1930’s almost everyone was racist to colored people because they think that white people are the best and they shouldn’t have the same rights as them. In the book there is a girl named Mayella Ewell and she like black men but she doesn’t want people to know because she is afraid she won’t be accepted. Because of her selfishness she put a black man named Tom Robinson put in jail and on trial. The central idea of To Kill a Mockingbird is racism and fear.
People back in the 1930’s were really racist. They didn’t like the fact that black people could just come to America and try to be like them so they didn’t like them. In the book Mayella was scared of what people think of her. She lied to everyone and said that Tom Robinson raped her