To Kill A Mockingbird Research PaperIn previous eras, anti-Black sentiment was widely recognized and sometimes encouraged in the United States. Black litigants have endured a long history of racist attitudes and inequality in the criminal justice system. To date, it is impossible to determine whether juries are providing an impartial trial for defendants, regardless of their racial background. Although underlying racism continues to be present in modern juries, racial bias in the modern legal system is certainly less blatant than many. of the pre-modern era. Despite this overwhelming evidence that indisputably proved their innocence, Tom Robinson, who raped a white woman, was "a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed." And even Atticus Finch's final plea that "In the name of God, do your duty," the failure of the jurors to fulfill this moral obligation and obtain an impartial verdict was due to the fact that the jury was not a complete representation of Maycomb. Although the novel established that the town of Maycomb had women and minorities, the jury itself was monochromatic and included only twelve white men. It is because of this lack of diversity that the Maycomb jurors were unable to grant Tom Robinson his right to a fair and impartial trial. The Scottsboro Boys In another similar case, nine black teenagers aged thirteen to nineteen were arrested, falsely accused, and initially convicted of raping two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, on a train in Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931. Young boys were also tried...... middle of paper ...... helps with the goal of providing the accused and the public with an impartial and honest system.ConclusionBy revisiting the issues raised by Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird, it seems clear that the majority of Americans do not live in a racist society like the one depicted in Maycomb. After centuries of prolonged struggles for activism and change, open hatred and prejudice against black people has become unacceptable and often taboo in today's society. Although there are still underlying trends of bias that may influence jurors' decisions in today's trials, the strong cascade of anti-Black sentiment and overtly racial norms that previously prevailed in America has significantly diminished. Black defendants have a far better chance of receiving a more fair and impartial verdict in the modern legal system than in the 1990s. 1930..