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Description
To Kill a Mocking
Bird Context
- Takes place in
1930, in Alabama
- Published in 1960, just
after civil rights took off
- 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
- Bought millions of
Africans to work in
America
- 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
- North wanted
to abolish (won)
- After abolished, in Maycomb,
black people still didn't have equal
rights
- Wasn't entitled to education
- Wasn't entitled to education
- 1861-1865 between Northern
United States and Confederate
States of America
- 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)
- Attacked and killed black Americans (and
whites who had been on Northens side)
- Believed they were superior to
everyone
- Formed 1860's by white men who fought for
Confederate States of America
- The Great Depression
- Effected stock market
and crop prices
- Americans couldn't earn a living,
average income dropped by 40%
between 1929-1932
- 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
- Depression helps explain
why people were racist in
Maycomb, land owners
like Cunninghams blamed
end of slavery for loss of
profit/land\status
- Effected stock market
and crop prices
- 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
- Men nearly lynched before trial
- Despite medical evidence
that women hadn't been
raped, the all-white jury
sentenced men (but
youngest) to death
- Happened in 1931 (Harper Lee
was 5)
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