What Is Lynching Occur In To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel written in the late 1930’s that deals with great amounts of racism. Although the narrator is a young girl who is surrounded by prejudice, she doesn't grasp the reasons why they are happening. One example is the act of Lynching. This was a major idea going on around the time of the story. The idea of Lynching, like many other groups and methods against the black community, originated in the Southern parts of America. Lynching is when a black individual or group would be murdered in the middle of the night. These murders were usually achieved by the blacks being hung in trees by their necks. It was typically done in mobs, where a large group of anti-blacks would set out to murder. In the novel, there is a group of white men who set out to kill a colored man who was wrongly accused of a crime. It says, “...grown men stood out in the yard for only two reasons: death and politics.” ( Lee, 193) These lynch mobs were very powerful and hard to stop. The government eventually passed a law which said that anyone who was caught following out

Many whites were supportive of the concept of lynching because they were raised to believe that they were superior over the black race. They were raised to hate blacks and everyone around them also hated blacks. They had their minds set and nothing could get in their way. In To Kill A Mockingbird the main protagonist was able to convince a lynch mob not to kill a young black man. For example, it says "... it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses…” (Lee, 210) Lynch mobs became a daily routine, they happened almost every day. There were places called Sundown Towns which were all white communities. These towns were proud supporters of lynching. They were clear when they said that they wanted no blacks to be in their town. If these towns members found any blacks in their community, they would lynch