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Sure Atticus lost the case, but he made his point and now—from somewhere in the back of the courthouse—a single clap starts what becomes a thundering of cheers and everyone became friends. Sigh…if only that’s how it ended.

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Thank you We sneak in To kill a mockingbird what's

00:07

next for maycomb ala shmoop after the tom robinson case

00:11

what happens for civil rights and make home This is

00:15

an exception to the rule and we know that nothing

00:19

changed for twenty thirty years after that one civil rights

00:22

movement really got the full force and nothing really changed

00:26

until even after that So you know it's not like

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oh atticus made this big you know to do And

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now everyone's getting along we know that what's gonna happen

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when the book ends is everything you say exactly the

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same Maybe it'll get worse for our people Start making

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on a scout again at school Make fun of her

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dad You know her dad will be getting threats This

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has been happening throughout the entire book So it's really

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you know i don't think of it as things are

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going to get worse It's things are going to stay

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the same and that's almost the worst case scenario because

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what needs to happen in a time of you know

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horrible prejudice is something needs to change And we get

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this idea that nothing's going to change it And it

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we know historically that it didn't Does the resolution of

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the novel bring about major change for maycomb Does racism 00:01:12.976 --> [endTime] still exists today in the criminal justice system

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