separate but equal" this is a quote used in the book To Kill A Mocking Bird. this quote stands for the jim crow time period it was a very bad period because blacks couldn't be like white people and that also happened in TKAM with the black person getting put in jail for supposedly  rape when he really didn't. This took place in the year on 1964. I feel like that should have never happened blacks aren't any less because the a different color don't be racist people should have been treated the same  the whole time. being black is not being different  being black is being a human. That is what Atticus is trying to prove from Maycomb.