1. Introduction to To Kill a Mockingbird
Historical Timeline

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

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

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

5. February 12, 1909
NAACP established

6. April 28, 1926
Harper Lee was born

7. October 1929
Stock Market Crashes; beginning of The Great Depression

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

9. Fall 1939
End of The Dust Bowl

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

11. 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?

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

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

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

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

16. 1961
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is awarded the Pulitzer Prize