Racism In Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird

Ku Klux Klan, the white supremacist group founded in 1866 after the Civil war, raised a terror against blacks and created a huge ‘circle’ that stood against blacks in government. They caused numerous terrorism, which targeted blacks and whites that defended or alignment with freedom of black; moreover, remembered as the most racist group of history. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ portrays the black community’s positive behavior towards white while they suffer from racism and abuse towards them. The novel stands on the weak and encourages changing the viewpoint towards the neglected class. The story of a white lawyer defending the black in court, states indirectly about what we are meant to think about the black community by Harper Lee. Most people tend to avoid or ignore black people when they see them, or even take all attention to them. The novel expresses black people’s optimism, it portrays how they behave during white’s racism and ignorance while they also bring up the passion for justice, and even admirable in their pureness.

Calpurnia is the first African-American figure we meet in the book. She was “all angles and bones; squinted; her hands were wide as a bed slate and twice as hard”(6) as Scout describes her. She has been a “faithful member of family”(150) and “still need Cal as much as we ever did.”(151) – Atticus says, introducing how important figure is she in his family by teaching Jem and Scout a moral theme and illustrated as a substitute mother. “Don 't matter