How does most of the town react to tom's death?

There wasn't too much of a reaction in the crowd, as to them he was just another dead African-American person. Read chapter 25 over to possibly understand better.

The town's reaction wasn't very big, as he was just another "un-educated black person." However, the black community was very sad about it, and a memoir was put into a black community newspaper.

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