Racial Equality

“I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.”- President Jimmy Carter. Racial Equality...Will it ever be achieved in the United States? Studies and Interviews have been done to figure this question out all with different answers. In the book, To Kill A MockingBird by Harper Lee. The narrator, a little girl named Scout Finch, lives in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. She attends a trial in which her father is an attorney for the defendant. The trial is about an African American man named Tom Robinson who is given the death penalty for “raping” a white woman named Mayella Ewell. The evidence of why Tom was not guilty was given during the case but he was still given the death penalty simply because he was an African