... apart from the centre of Maycomb "Past the dump small Negro settlement". Negroes were social outcasts and did not mix with the whites unless working for them and then they spoke respectfully calling them "Sir" or "miss". He is also physically deformed, his left arm being crippled "rubber like ... niggers" This is our first taste of racism in American courts in the 1930's as it was a thing Scout wanted to deny - that her father, a lawyer, was on a niggers side. She questions her father about this and he simply says that he is defending a "Negro" Atticus isn't prejudiced and describes Tom ...

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