... were less whites and hopefully more jobs. The colored families were met with passive aggressive racism in these towns, but were often given jobs, and the towns like Maycomb from To Kill a Mockingbird soon settled into an easy soft spoken racist mindset. This novel by Harper Lee covers and goes into depth about the racism in a little town called Maycomb in Alabama; narrated ... by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, or Scout, as the book references her. Scout is exposed to hatred and racism to colored people as she grows up in Maycomb. In the beginning, the racism is not outright harsh...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate