What Is The Difference Between The 1930s And Today

Bobby Seale once said, “You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.”. In Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, she expressed the challenges of racism during the 1930’s, as well as Scout, the main character’s ways to deal with racism. Although racism is still prominent in today it has been deplenished greatly. Racism has been improved by the higher numbers of interracial marriages, a decline in segregated churches, as well as judicial amendments passed.
It can be seen in today’s world the difference between today and in the 1930’s dealing with interracial marriages. When Scout was a kid seeing an interracial marriage couple was a rare event and considered wrong. "She was white, and she tempted a Negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man. Not an old Uncle, but a strong young Negro man. No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterward." (Lee 272), this quote suggests that a white male with a black female is not right and is frowned upon. Unlike the 1930’s, today's world has improved greatly with this problem. In an article written by Kim Pinnelli, 17% of married couples are interracial, “The number of interracial
In To Kill a Mockingbird there were two separate churches for two separate races, “Lula stopped, but she said, "You ain't got no business bringin' white chillun here—they got their church, we got our'n. It is our church, ain't it, Miss Cal?" (Lee 158). When Scout entered Cal’s church she was heavily declined due to her race, which is wrong and is not seen anymore today. Today anyone can go to any church, “No single racial or ethnic group makes up at least 80% of the congregation”. This quote was based off segregations in congregations and was taken by Pew research in 2014. Seen by these two quotes segregation in churches has gotten exceedingly