... 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 ... outrageous prices and renting from landlords who took advantage of them; while white families were able to buy their own homes, get loans, have a tax deduction and not have to pay rent. When it came to the court c...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate