In this story I think Harper Lee has made the black community socially stronger. They stick together through a lot and help each other out. You can see this a lot when it comes to the time of Tom Robinson’s trial. Not only do you see the way people react towards the black community but the way the white community discriminate towards a white man (Atticus Finch) who is for Tom Robinson’s lawyer during the case. The black people were made to sit upstairs in the court away from the white people. This was because the white people didn’t want to associate with any other race apart from their own. They don’t really talk to Atticus Finch during this period because he has gone against what half of Maycomb believes.
The black community is very secure in terms of how strong they are as a unit. Their homes are in a different part of the town to the white people. The church is also a very strong community and when Calpurnia takes Jem and Scout to it, the black people react to this with a bit of racism. For example somebody says ‘I wants to know why you bringin’ white chillun to a nigger church’, the same person also says ‘You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillun here – they got their church, we got our’n. It is our church ain’t it, Miss Cal?’ When Scout was pointing out what his church had in comparison to the black church. She said ‘There was no sign of piano, organ, hymn-books, church programmes-the familiar ecclesiastical impedimenta we saw every Sunday. It was dim inside, with a damp coolness slowly dispelled by the gathering congregation. At each seat was a cheap cardboard fan bearing a garish Garden of Gethsemane, courtesy Tyndal’s Hardware Co. (You-Name-It-We-Sell-It).
It doesn’t really mention the education of the black people in this novel but there is mention of one of the few black people that can read. His name is ‘Zeebo’; he is Calpurnia’s eldest son.
Altogether, the black community give back as good as they get from the white people of Maycomb. I think because the black people have had racism thrown at them for most probably all of their lives they just give back as good as they get.
In the black community they all treat each other with respect and are all there to help one another, unlike the white community. In the white community they are very prejudice and will criticise each other quite a lot.
As a whole the black part of Maycomb treat the white part well, because they have 2 put up with a lot from them and they aren’t always as critical to them as the whites are to the blacks.