Black people were segregated to the point they had to have their own schools, churches, football teams and cemeteries. In TKAM, Jem and Scout are told off for visiting the black church with Calpurnia. The black people had to sit away from the white people in the court (like in the Tom Robinson case) in the balcony where it was hotter and more uncomfortable.
When Harper Lee was writing the novel, the Cilvil Rights Movement was getting underway where black people wanted the right to vote & desegregation
In 1930’s, 50% of the population of Southern towns were black but they had no rights and couldn’t marry white people.
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