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To Kill a Mocking Bird Context
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To Kill a Mocking Bird Context
Takes place in 1930, in Alabama
Published in 1960, just after civil rights took off
Slave Trade
Bought millions of Africans to work in America
Bought in slave ships and suffered awful conditions
Bought by white people, had no rights
Abolished in 1865, the idea that black people were inferior was normal
American Civil War
1861-1865 between Northern United States and Confederate States of America
Main cause was disagreement over slavery
North wanted to abolish (won)
South wanted to keep
After abolished, in Maycomb, black people still didn't have equal rights
Wasn't entitled to education
Klu Klux Klan
Formed 1860's by white men who fought for Confederate States of America
Believed they were superior to everyone
Attacked and killed black Americans (and whites who had been on Northens side)
The Great Depression
Effected stock market and crop prices
Americans couldn't earn a living, average income dropped by 40% between 1929-1932
Atticus talks about depression when says that times are hard for people (Ewell's/Cunninghams)
Depression helps explain why people were racist in Maycomb, land owners like Cunninghams blamed end of slavery for loss of profit/land\status
Scottsboro Trial
Happened in 1931 (Harper Lee was 5)
Nine black men were accused of raping two white women
Despite medical evidence that women hadn't been raped, the all-white jury sentenced men (but youngest) to death
Men nearly lynched before trial
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