White Supremacy In To Kill A Mockingbird

“We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe-some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they are born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others-some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men” (274). In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch contradicts Thomas Jefferson’s famous quote, revealing to us that there is no such thing as equality. Set in the southern state of Alabama, To Kill a Mockingbird is a story through the perspective of young Scout Finch during the time of the Great Depression. A controversial case is put on trial, exposing readers to the effect of white supremacy. Similarly, Rosa Parks’s discriminative society was what caused her take action and stand up to segregation. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson’s trial exemplifies racial superiority, while Rosa Parks challenges the segregation of blacks and whites. Both Harper Lee and Rosa Parks’s actions argue that those who are colored are born with the disadvantage …show more content…
To demonstrate, as Judge Taylor was polling the jury, he read “guilty…guilty…guilty…guilty…” (282). Similarly, when asked what made her decide not to get up from her seat, Rosa Parks added “I did not sit at the very front of the bus; I took a seat with a man who was next to the window -- the first seat that was allowed for "colored" people to sit in” (“Interview with Rosa Parks”). Those of color in both To Kill a Mockingbird and Rosa Parks’s society did not have a considerable say in anything. Nothing they did or said could win against white dominance because of their lack of impartiality. The unfair treatment of African Americans can be prominent in any situation during the time of the Great Depression and 1955. Thus, due to the fact that they are colored, Tom Robinson and Rosa Parks were treated