One of the events that Harper Lee used in To Kill A Mockingbird is the Jim Crow Laws. The Jim Crow laws affected how blacks and whites treated and interacted with each other. They were a huge set of laws that were anti-black. “The belief that blacks were innately, intellectually, and culturally inferior to whites.” (Pilgram) This shows how people thought back then and how whites did not second guess how rude they were to blacks. If blacks broke any one of the Jim Crow Laws, they would be violently punished or even killed. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird segregation showed up a lot because of the time period it was set in. An example is Calpurnia's church. She has to go to a different church because she is black. Also, when Boo Radley is
