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To Kill A Mockingbird Slides
To Kill A Mockingbird Slides
To Kill A Mockingbird Slides
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Alyssa Jacobsen
Harper Lee - author of To Kill a
Mockingbird
Nelle Harper Lee, better known by her pen name Harper Lee, was
born on April 28th, 1926 in the town of Monroeville, AL
To Kill a Mockingbird was the only book Lee had ever written,
however, when published Nelle one the Presidential Medal of
Freedom
She is also known for helping her childhood best friend, Truman
Capote, write his novel In Cold Blood
Francis is also used as the model for the kind Atticus Finch in her
novel (last names stay the same for both Atticus and Francis)
Left, Atticus
Right, Francis
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird became one of Harpers best selling books
when it was published in 1960, and was chosen immediately by the
Book of the Month Club
The story hit home with many people of the time who were facing
prejudice and discrimination by showing a black man getting
assisted by Atticus to get a fair trial
This has also been turned into a movie in which Harper Lee came into
filming one day and did a lot of interviews
Many court cases were based on if a black man or woman was using a
white persons bathroom or other establishments
A lot of black citizens tried to lie about their ancestors by saying they
were native american instead of african american so they could
have the same rights as white people
Several young black children charged for the rape of two white
women
In the book, it states many problems during this unfair time, including
black segregation located in Alabama
Signaled the beginning of the Great Depression which was a ten year
economic downturn
After the stock market crash, Wall street panicked and investors
started to pull out rapidly
People forced to sell businesses and find enough money to pay off
debts/margins
The biggest side effect was the Great Depression, which devastated
the economy and forced many people into an overwhelming state of
poverty
Persuaded both black and whites to push for basic civil rights
Said to have helped more in the white house than any of his
predecessors
The people took faith in him, his words, and, in turn, themselves
Political Climate
Roosevelt did not claim his heros title by what he did, but how he
reacted to others
He recognized the Soviet Union right away and made sure the U.S.
still in its horrid state, didnt act on the war happening in Europe
Overall, Roosevelt assisted in the faith and growth of the citizens and
economy throughout one of the toughest points in history
The Jim Crow Laws: What they did to the
country
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced segregation
in the southern U.S.
They stated that black people could not say white people were lying,
never dishonor white people, suggest white people were of a lesser
class, say they were smart, curse white people, laugh at white
people, or say something about a white females appearance
These rules are all from a published book by Stetson Kennedy entitled
Jim Crow Guide
After slavery was made illegal (1865) the southern people got angry,
so they passed the Jim Crow Laws to have some discriminatory
control back in their hands
The southerners were satisfied after the laws were passed and made
it very known by the segregational behavior
Jim Crow Laws
Segregation started slowly in different southern states by different
train cars and eventually became most of the south and bigger
needs were segregated (schools, bathrooms)
It started with the fear of blacks taking white jobs, so they took away
the blacks right to do anything that was normal for whites
Blacks werent allowed to sit/work in the same room, walk through the
same door, or even look out the same window without punishment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929
https://www.thebalance.com/stock-market-crash-of-1929-causes-effects-and-
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