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Harper Lee wrote this book with an intention of underlining the prejudice and racial issues of the era. She stated her worldview and the way she felt towards these issues through a dramatic story of racist and prejudice acts towards black people. Harper Lee grew up in a town very much like the fictional one in the story. She experienced these acts on a daily basis, devolving her worldview.
Harper Lee grew up through the 1960's civil rights movement. Cases like the Scottsboro and Emmit Till, uncovered the prejudice attitudes and the legal system. All these events contributed to the development of Harper lee's world view. The attitude toward black people in this era was they were the devils children and they weren't entitled to the same rights as white people. With groups like the KKK, the attitudes towards black people in America became worse. Through this book Harper Lee portrayed the black man as the victim for the first time and showed how black people were treated on the daily basis.

Whites were considered superior to blacks. For reasons like blacks were not mentioned in the bible, blacks were considered the devils children and blacks were thought to be stupid and incapable of living a white life. Black people were blamed for the great depression, causing many white people to lose their jobs. This was the beginning of the prejudice and racial referral to black people. Black people were not giving a chance at life in the 1960's. They were often used as slaves and were payed dismal wages. In the novel TKAM, Harper Lee puts a voice to the black community. Her book was a shout out to the world to bring an end to these racial acts towards the blacks. People listened and black people were able to obtain a higher class job. Black people were able to eat were white people eat, drink were white people drink. Black people were given back there rights and this book was in the recipe.
  
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