At this time racial discrimination was very common in the south. Many African Americans were accused and prosecuted for crimes they did not commit. Even if evidence said otherwise, the majority of the white population in the south would have rather seen a black man pay for a crime rather than a white man regardless of who committed it. Tom Robinson was subjected to this type of discrimination when he was accused of molesting a …showed first 75 words of 546 total…

…showed last 75 words of 546 total…of Maycomb County to know that his daughter had been with a black man and how he her own father had brutally beaten her. It was the racism of the people in Maycomb that was the cause of this. If it was not believed to be a wrong thing for a black man and a white woman to be together, Mayella's father would not have beaten her and the trial would have never taken place.