To Kill a Mockingbird

The 1930’s in the United States could be described as a reformation period in response to the worst economic collapse in national history. The Great Depression was a battle for all aspects of the American society and in particular, the South, because of its meager efforts for racial equality. The South is well known for being a stronghold of reactionary principles and in To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee composed an earnest tale focused on the lives of two children in Maycomb County. The consistent bigotry exposed in the narrative reveal a principle that African Americans did not receive- the opportunity to receive a fair trial and a slim chance of being found innocent. But who is responsible for not enforcing the laws that are written in the Constitution? The duty of this action falls highly into Maycomb’s restraints on tolerating change and diversity. Whether it was the poor farm families, the middle class townspeople, or the civil force, the historic racial complications set by the slave era established a dreadful social system that unfortunately underlies the rules that operate Maycomb.
President Franklin D Roosevelt announced during the Great Depression that the American South “represented the nation’s number one economic problem”. Although slavery had been abolished in 1865 by the enactment of the 13th amendment, the deep scars left by racial segregation contributed to the suffering of African Americans. The wounds intertwined with economic disasters caused by the Great Depression lead to southern Blacks drowning in the deep end of America’s economic despair. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout portrayed Maycomb as an “Old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it… There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County”. The depiction of an ‘old town with no money’ exhibit the pitiable welfare that stationed itself upon the citizens. During the depression