TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD

ABOU THE AUTHOR HARPER LEE

• Harper Lee is an American novelist widely known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird
• She was born in 1926 on April 28, she was born in monrovil,e alabama
• She is currently 88 years on age
• She is going to publish another book titled to set a watchman, it will be published in april 2015
• Tkamb was a widely popular book and was made into a movie in 1962

THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS

• they were Nine African American boys that were convicted of raping two Caucasian Girls.
• April 1931, Scottsboro Alabama. There was a lot of racism in this area of the U.S at this time.
• the naacp. didn’t help them because it would make them look bad.
• After five of them died they were pardoned of their conviction.
• Their defense lawyers were prejudice, inexperienced, and attorneys not lawyers.

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

• The stock market crashed causeing everyone invested in it to lose all their investments
• Women took over jobs that men would usually had because of the war
• Oresident herbert hoover was inaugurated in 1933
• The dust bowl was a series of serious dust storms in the canadian prairies during the 1930's
• It made it so no crops could be grown in the area anymore

LIFE IN THE SOUTH

• Blacks had a harder time finding jobs
• White land owners had a harder time keeping up their profits
• Black and white children somtimes did not have new or clean clothes
• And in even worse cases no food either

JIM CROW LAWS

• They were segrGation laws
• Blacks and white could not eat together
• Blacks were not allowed to show public affection to each other
• Blacks and whites had to use separate bathrooms from each other
• They could not go to the same school and black couldn't teach whites