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Subjects: Civil Rights

The Law and the Code in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird

by Robert O. Stephens

“On the surface the story is about growing up in a small southern town.” During his speech to the jury at the climactic trial of Tom Robinson in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch presents a fundamental distinction between the two forces in conflict during the rape trial—the law and the code. Tom »

Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom by Richard H. King (Review)

by Charles W. Eagles

Oxford University Press, 1992 Most people have some notion about what freedom meant for the civil rights movement: fairness in the judicial system, equal access to public accommodations, the right to vote, and an end to racial discrimination. Scholars such as Clayborne Carson have recognized the centrality of freedom to the movement by suggesting that »