T O K ILL A M OCKINGBIRD A socio-historical overview

Reflect on Video

T IMELINE OF B LACK HISTORY 1. Slavery 16 th to 19 th century: slave trade 1787: American Constitution – Blacks were considered ‘three fifths’ of a whole person Famous figures in the anti-slavery movement: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe

T IMELINE OF B LACK HISTORY 2. Civil War Slavery and secession Abraham Lincoln 1862 Emancipation Proclamation 1865 Victory of the North and the abolishment of slavery

T IMELINE OF B LACK HISTORY 3. Civil Rights Era 1950s-1980s Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott Martin Luther King, Jr. -- pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama Autherine Lucy and the University of Alabama Escalating violence and racial tension

H ARPER L EE Born- 1926, Alabama Mother-Amasa Coleman Lee Father- Frances Cunningham Finch

S ETTING OF THE NOVEL Set in 1930s, during the Great Depression

S ETTING OF THE NOVEL The Scottsboro Boys trials (1931 – 1937) Harper Lee’s childhood (born in 1926)

S ETTING OF THE N OVEL Published in 1960, near the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement

T HE P LACE - M AYCOMB Southern traditions Farming economy Confederate tendencies Family pride Southern belle (delicate females) Hotbed of the Civil Rights Movement

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