That’s ridiculous. With the exception of Bob Ewell, all the characters are decent, law-abiding people.
Have any of you guys read this book since it went on the best seller list in the 1960s???
Yes — depicted as decent, law-abiding thorough-going racists.
There was nothing in the book about the deeply rooted (and largely justifiable) fear of black crime. For every innocent Tom Robinson, there were plenty of guilty black men. Today, eighty percent of interracial violence is black-on-white. The truth in the past (Great Depression) probably wasn’t too much different,