During this time period in Maycomb, Alabama, the town is facing racial issues. Maycomb is a county whose population is mixed between white and colored people. However, most of the African American society in this town serve as the people caring for the white Americans home and housekeeping; they are doing all the hard labor. This causes a lot of racial differences between the population as a whole. Therefore, when the time of Tom Robinson’s trial comes about, it is an unfair trial because he is African American. This is why Atticus feels that he had a great chance of losing this case. He has such a low chance because the jury for this case will be all white men, so they will be biased about the case in which Tom Robinson may or may not have
