After the Civil War, White southerners were angry that they had lost the war and angry that slaves now free. They showed a lot of prejudice against black people. Some white people joined the Ku Klux Klan, groups of men who dressed in white, Covered their faces, and went out to beat and murder black people. Black men could not vote until 1870, and even after they got the right to vote, they often did not use it because they were frightening story of a black man, Tom Robinson, In 1930s Alabama. Although Tom has done nothing wrong, people easily believe that he is a criminal-just because he is black