Abstract. The racism and prejudice in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird shows the different ways in which whites and blacks were treated, in Alabama. Harper Lee's acclaimed novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," explores the theme of justice through the lens of racial inequality and social injustice in the Deep South, ~Essays and Reviews at To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Select an area of ​​the website to search To Kill a Mockingbird, novelists and southerners discuss Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and the novel's courage in tackling issues of segregation and racism in the South; Those who view Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, as reinforcing the racism it describes need to examine its context. Akin Ajayi, 09.Nelle Harper Lee when she died, about two months before her birthday, which was due to fall on th. She was the youngest of four or five children (facts vary) and she was. It was a very brave book to write when Harper Lee wrote it. And she probably doesn't get any credit anymore for telling a truth that people, you know, in 1959, 1960, weren't ready to acknowledge. Schools, buses, restaurants, churches and neighborhoods were all segregated. In Mobile, as pastor of Michigan Avenue, Introduction. Many lawyers today would cite a year-old story as inspiration. Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird is, at its core, the story of an advocate's quest against racial injustice in his Deep South home and his children growing up in the shadows. of their father. The novel is told in two parts by his youngest child.