In the 1940s whites were clearly the majority and superior race. Whites despised all other races, especially blacks. This superiority had been going on for hundreds of years and was never questioned until the 1950s and 1960s. During this time there were many civil rights movements led by communists and other groups who believed in racial equality. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the most famous spokesman and a staunch supporter of racial equality. The helm of all the white supremacist groups was in Chicago. They targeted many pro-integration groups. Most of these white supremacist groups were located in the Marquette Manor, Chicago Lawn, West Lawn, and Gage Park neighborhoods of Chicago. During the civil rights movements of the 1960s, these areas were a major target. These efforts were not successfully completed in the Marquette Park area until the 1980s, when integration slowly began to occur by some blacks, Arabs, and Hispanics moving into the area. Most white residents remained silent until the mid-1980s. Then anti-segregation groups formed a coalition and used scapegoating against blacks to amplify discrimination in this area. Magnifying this problem hasn't helped matters at all. It caused attacks against blacks and bombings of black homes. Whites hated blacks in the 60s and 70s because they felt they were inferior to them and should be segregated. Blacks hated whites because they made them feel inferior and because they had more opportunities than they had. The book Native Son is about the segregation of blacks and whites in the 1940s. Bigger, the main character of this book, killed a white girl and was sentenced to the death penalty for it. White prosecutors in the book tried to charge him with many other crimes such as rape, burglary, and other murders. Even though Bigger robbed some people and killed his black girlfriend, he was not tried for these crimes because at that time the White majority did not care what happened to blacks as long as they did nothing that could harm or interfere with the life of a white man. The death penalty probably would not have been pursued if Mary Dalton's killer had been white. Since Bigger is black, he is very hated and despised in this book. Crowds formed outside the courthouse during Bigger's trial due to hatred of the