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Introduction to To Kill a Mockingbird Historical Timeline

January 1, 1863 Pres. Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation (says that all slaves are free)

December 6, 1865 13th Amendment passed outlawing slavery in the U.S. Constitution

May 18, 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson: Legalizes racism through the “Separate But Equal Doctrine”

February 12, 1909 NAACP established

April 28, 1926 Harper Lee was born

October 1929 Stock Market Crashes; beginning of The Great Depression

Summer 1931 Beginning of The Dust Bowl Throughout the Midwest and Plains: High temperatures Extreme draughts (no rain) Poor farming practices

Fall 1939 End of The Dust Bowl

March 4, 1933 Inauguration of Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)

December 7, 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor Official entry of U.S. into WWII End of The Great Depression What did FDR say in his famous speech?

May 8, 1945 V-E Day Beginning of the end of WWII

May 17, 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education “Separate is NOT Equal” 1950s and 1960s were the height of the Civil Rights Movement

December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat in the white section of a Montgomery, Alabama bus

July 11, 1960 Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is published in the U.S.

1961 Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is awarded the Pulitzer Prize