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28 Jun 2010, 12:18 am by charley foster
There is no ambiguity in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'; at the end of the book, we know exactly what we knew at the beginning: that Atticus Finch is a good man, that Tom Robinson was an innocent victim of racism, and that lynching is bad. [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 2:56 pm by Alfred Brophy
 It doesn't take a moral giant to oppose a legalized lynching -- which given that this was set in Alabama in the 1930s -- reminds me of the Scottsboro trials and also the Tuscaloosa lynchings. [read post]
9 Aug 2009, 12:31 pm
He stood on the steps of the jail to stop a lynch mob. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 1:37 pm by Alfred Brophy
"  That may be a lot of what explains the shift from Atticus the lawyer working against lynching and the supporter of the White Citizens Council. [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 11:14 am by Steve Lubet
He thwarted a lynch mob and provided the best defense possible for Tom Robinson. [read post]
28 Mar 2014, 5:45 am by Tim Sitzmann
There are also some who think it is time to take Atticus off this pedestal. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 9:33 am by Dale Carpenter
 But I do think there is a way to understand K&S’s decision as something more than just the tale of a cowardly sheriff handing Atticus Finch over to the lynch mob. [read post]
17 Jul 2019, 4:41 am by SHG
For being black at a time when something as outrageous as posing as a lynching victim of the Klan wasn’t considered so far beyond the pale as to be inconceivable? [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 12:33 pm by Frank Daily
On April 4, 1865, just days before General Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Union Army General John T. [read post]