To Kill a Mockingbird

Why do the people of Maycomb resent Atticus for defending Tom Robinson?

Has to be from the chapters 9-16.

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Pure and simple. Atticus is defending a black man accused of raping a white woman. At the time, this was almost unheard of. 

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