To Kill A Mockingbird-racial P
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During the Great Depression, times were very hard for minorities and they were treated harshly and poorly. If any blacks were accused of committing crimes by whites, ninety-eight percent of the time they were found guilty even if the evidence clearly stated that they were innocent. If any white law ....
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.... he was automatically guilty. This strong lawyer takes up the case saying ".. If I didn't I couldn't even hold up my own head in town, I couldn't even represent the legislature,.. every lawyer gets at least one case that affects him personally. This one's mine,"(page 76) and still defends Tom no matter what the town was saying about him and his family. Atticus' sister, Aunt Alexandra, keeps telling him that he shouldn't take up the case because he is disgracing the family by defending a lowl ....
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