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Mind Map by ashleighwigley, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by ashleighwigley
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To Kill A Mocking Bird - Context
- Like Jem & Scout, Lee's father was a lawyer.
She wrote the book in the 1950's and
published it in 1960.
- American Slavery
- Originally brought from Africa during the 17th-19th
Century, sold as slaves to work on sugar and cotton
plantations, had no rights and were seen as little more
than animals/machines
- Even after abolition of slaver in 1865,
blacks were still powerless
- Blacks had the worst of everything
and whites had the best
- Great depression: money was tight for
everyone and blacks were hanged by mobs
without trial
- Originally brought from Africa during the 17th-19th
Century, sold as slaves to work on sugar and cotton
plantations, had no rights and were seen as little more
than animals/machines
- Segregation and injustice
- 1930's: Blacks had no vote and
could not marry whites
- Blacks had their own schools, churches, football teams and cemeteries
- Harper Lee may have based her novel in
part on a case in Scottsboro, Alabama.
- The Scottsboro case: nine young black men accused of raping two
white women on trial, 4 men sentenced long time in prison, later found the
women were lying.
- The Scottsboro case: nine young black men accused of raping two
white women on trial, 4 men sentenced long time in prison, later found the
women were lying.
- 1930's: Blacks had no vote and
could not marry whites
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