ln To Kill a Mockingbird the main character Jean Finch, also called Scout, is struggling to grasp the complex idea of prejudice. Atticus Finch, Scout’s father, has to represent a black man arrested for rape of a white woman. Plessy is found guilty of disregarding a law built on racism. Just like in the story there are still racism and prejudice in society. In the Plessy vs. Ferguson case the defendant, Homer Plessy refused to sit in the All-Black car and sat instead in the All-White car then. Plessy was arrested for violating the ‘separate but equal’ law. At trial with Justice John H. Ferguson, Plessy was found guilty on the grounds that the law was reasonable since everything was equal, just separate. Plessy rebutted saying that segregation
