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Tom Robinson was explaining to the jury that Mayella kissed him and so he ran away and was very afraid. We can assume from the book that Bob Ewell beat Mayella up out of anger and blamed it on Tom Robinson because no one would believe a black man's word. However, Tom showing how he was afraid is derived from the historical stigma of a white and black person romance. They both would get into much trouble if they were caught and Bob Ewell knew that, so he said that Tom did it against Mayella's will so she wouldn't go to jail or get lynched like he was going to be.

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When looking at these pieces of information overall, different perspectives of segregation and injustice, are provided. The information tied together justice and race, explaining why injustice had occurred during times of segregation. Justice hasn't always been fair to all races and skin colors and this shaped the way our country has been for a long time.

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"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." (Lee 115).

This quote shows how couragous the author made the characters in this book. He uses an analogy describing a man has bravery if he overcomes a situation where he needs to have a gun in his hand. However, he describes how people who already know the outcome of the situation and they want to try harder in order to overcome adversity.

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Both Tom Robinson and Walter McMillian were black men that were wrongly accused of heinous crimes. Both of these cases have conflicting evidence against their accuser, that directly contradicted the "evidence" that they provided.

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Atticus begging the judge and jury to look at the case of a black man without personal opinion of race. Race played a factor in justice, giving either an advantage/disadvantage to the victim.

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"The prison population has increased from 300,000 people in the early 1970s to 2.3 million people today" (Page 13)

- In Just Mercy, it states that there are people working towards getting people out of death row because there are so many people who don't deserve to be there. Justice was supposed to be in place to help, but it resulted to create more problems.

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"One in every fifteen people born in the United States in 2001 is expected to go to jail or prison" (Page 13)

- Imprisonment is too common and in TKM, Tom was put into prison just because someone said something, with no evidence.

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"Alabama’s state constitution still prohibited the practice in 1986 when Walter met Karen Kelly. Section 102 of the state constitution read: The legislature shall never pass any law to authorize or legalize any marriage between any white person and a Negro or descendant of a Negro." (Stevenson 21-22)

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"When I first went to death row in December 1983, America was in the early stages of a radical transformation that would turn us into an unprecedentedly harsh and punitive nation and result in mass imprisonment" (Page 13)

- America's history all changed because of the severe punishments that were beginning to become really common.

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"As it was, Walter didn’t initially think much of the flirtations of Karen Kelly, a young white woman he’d met at the Waffle House where he ate breakfast. She was attractive, but he didn’t take her too seriously. When her flirtations became more explicit, Walter hesitated, and then persuaded himself that no one would ever know." (Page 20)'

- Walter did not think that much of Karens flirtations advantages, however he did end up eventually getting together with her, knowing that these interracial relationships were illegal.

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"It wasn’t until 1967 that the United States Supreme Court finally struck down anti-miscegenation statutes in Loving v. Virginia, but restrictions on interracial marriage persisted even after that landmark ruling." (Stevenson 21)

- This occurred before Walter and Karens interracial relationship, so the restriction on interracial marriage and relationship would cause them trouble in the future.

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"Some states permanently strip people with criminal convictions of the right to vote; as a result, in several Southern states disenfranchisement among African American men has reached levels unseen since before the Voting Rights Act of 1965" (Page 13)

- Being a criminal results in more consequences than just the punishment they are given. African American men were often put into jail with little evidence against them, resulting in less African Americans having the ability to vote.

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"Educational opportunities for black children in the 1950s were limited, but Walter’s mother got him to the dilapidated “colored school” for a couple of years when he was young." (Stevenson 19)

- Many children were forced to work on the plantations because there were no other options for them to work without education. This goes for Tom Robinson and Walter.

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"In the 1940s, thousands of African Americans left the region as part of the Great Migration and headed mostly to the Midwest and West Coast for jobs." (Page 19)

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"The story of an innocent black man bravely defended by a white lawyer in the 1930s fascinated millions of readers, despite its uncomfortable exploration of false accusations of rape involving a white woman. Lee’s endearing characters, Atticus Finch and his precocious daughter, Scout, captivated readers while confronting them with some of the realities of race and justice in the South" (Page 18)

- Mentions the impact that To Kill A Mockingbird had on people during the 1930s. It opened people's eyes to the racial problems.

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"The State of Idaho banned interracial marriage and sex between white and black people in 1921 even though the state’s population was 99.8 percent nonblack." (Stevenson 21)

- Walter and Karen had an interracial relationship after this law was set in place, resulting in them getting in trouble because of their relationship.

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Monroe County had been developed by plantation owners in the nineteenth century for the production of cotton. Situated in the coastal plain of southwest Alabama, the fertile, rich black soil of the area attracted white settlers from the Carolinas who amassed very successful plantations and a huge slave population." (Stevenson 19)

- Tom Robinson and many other slaves were placed in Alabama to work on the plantations. If he wasn't going to work or working on the plantation he would've never met Mayella and the whole accusation wouldn't have happened.

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"The confluence of race and sex was a powerful force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century. In the aftermath of slavery, the creation of a system of racial hierarchy and segregation was largely designed to prevent intimate relationships like Walter and Karen’s—relationships that were, in fact, legally prohibited by “anti-miscegenation statutes” (the word miscegenation came into use in the 1860s, when supporters of slavery coined the term to promote the fear of interracial sex and marriage and the race mixing that would result if slavery was abolished)." (Page 21)

- Black and white romances were absolutely not allowed and many provoked fear into those to prevent it further. This was evident in Walter and Karen's relationship and how they were fearful aswell as shamed upon for it.

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Yellow- Just Mercy quotes and explanation
Blue- TKAM key details
Pink- Conclusions drawn