Prejudice And Racism In Maycomb Alabama In The 1900's

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Maycomb Alabama in the 1900’s dealt with racism as well as many other severe problems including sexism and classism along with serious prejudice. Prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience, this causes many false accusations which leads towards racism. Subconscious prejudice and racism is still a large problem to this date, this will eventually go away, but to understand what people feel when

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