What is a specific example of political injustice to a character in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, and if the character overcomes this...

In Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird, I cannot think of any character that overcomes political
injustice. There are several examples of injustice in the novel. Certainly Boo Radley is
treated unjustly, but this he suffers at the hands of his family. And Boo never
overcomes it, though he does shine for a while.

The only
character that I can identify as one who suffers from political
injustice is that of Tom Robinson. He is defended by Atticus Finch (one of the novel's
main characters) and receives an outstanding defense that he would never have received
otherwise—because Atticus is such a morally upright man. He sees no issue of color (for
Tom is a black man in a racial community wrongfully accused of raping a white woman).
Atticus sees a man—innocent until proven guilty—though he is realistic enough to know
that winning this case will be nearly impossible in
Maycomb.

While Judge Taylor purposely selects Atticus to
defend Tom, knowing that Atticus will do an excellent job, Taylor knows that his town is
divided (and not equally) on the question of race. This is the
story's political climate. To Kill a Mockingbird is set during the
Great Depression. The South has been hit harder than the North because it has not yet
recovered from the damage left by the Civil War. There is some tolerance with regard to
race, but the majority of people in this small southern town do not represent
it.

The prosecution is not concerned about Tom's innocence,
for it is apparent early on that the woman (Mayella Ewell) has lied, and was most likely
attacked by a left-handed man (her dad)—for Tom Robinson has no use of his
left hand. Still, the guilty verdict comes down, though there were some that
opposed it—and it was surprising to learn about some of those who
did oppose it: unlikely protectors of Tom's rights as a man, rather
than as a black man.

Tom does not overcome these obstacles.
The idea of imprisonment is too much for him—he snaps; while in the exercise yard of the
Enfield Prison Farm (where Tom has been sent), he tries to escape over a barb-wired
fence with only one good arm.

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They said he just broke into a blind raving
charge at the fence and started climbing over...They said if he'd had two good arms he'd
of made it, he was moving that
fast.

The guards shoot him
seventeen times in the back.

The political climate is
separated by those liberals who respect the black community, and the conservative, Civil
War contingent who believes that blacks are inferior even to white trash, such as Bob
Ewell...the man who accuses Tom Robinson, and who most likely beat his daughter,
Mayella.

Lee describes Bob Ewell, and the political climate
in the story:

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All the little man on the witness stand had that
made him any better than his nearest neighbors was, that if scrubbed with lye soap in
very hot water, his skin was
white.