By 1931, slavery had been abolished for nearly seventy years, and many black people lived in society like everyone else because they had the right to do so. Yet people did not treat them as if they belonged, even though the government officially declared it so. The majority of white people made sure they had nothing to do with black people because they also risked being disrespected or looked down upon. In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, many of the outcomes may have been different due to the racism of the residents of the town of Maycomb towards black people. Tom Robinson had an unfair white jury. Aunt Alexandra put a stop to Scout and Jem going to church because it was a black church. People didn't care how Tom was treated because he was "just a black guy." The town turned on Atticus for defending a black man. The racism in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird affected events by not giving black people as many chances to be taken for their word of innocence, demonstrating not only an unfair legal system for people of color, but a unjust system in other aspects of life. so.Aunt Alexandr...