... 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 ... different skin tone was good enough. Deprivation didn't stop there, as in Baltimore the colored folk were not allowed to live near white people, "No black person could occupy a home on a block where more than half the people were white;" (The Editorial Board). Even when the colored families...

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