1. Background for Mockingbird

2. 1920s Fashion Women
Beautiful coordinated and accessorized outfits were a feature of 1920's ladies fashions. Hats, shoes, stockings, handbags, dresses and jewelry all came together in harmony to create a unique and elegant style that can only be appreciated when seen in real-life or in color illustrations. The vibrancy is lost in black and white photographs.

3. 1920s Fashion Men
Men wore Jos. A. Bank suits back in the Roaring Twenties and the label is still around almost 100 years later. Men dressed "Jazz Suits" marked by their high, narrow waists

4. 1920s Children Fashion
Although many families struggled with the hardship of little money, mothers were resourceful using their needlework skills to create enchanting clothing for their little ones

5. Great Depression
These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.

6. Photos from Great Depression

7. Great Depression ¼ of population was unemployed
Caused by stock market crash in 1929
Many people were poverty-stricken and struggled to feed their families
Hoover, the president at the time, did nothing to help the people in need
FDR tried to end the depression, but did not

8. Jim Crow Laws
s- laws that prohibited blacks from being recognized as citizens
Separated blacks from whites in restaurants, schools, etc.
Contributed to the continuation of racist attitudes and social unrest in the 1960s

9. Jim Crow Laws

10. Civil Rights Movement
Novel was written during the civil rights movement
Themes of novel stem from social unrest at the time includes the marches on Washington, controversy over Rosa Parks, and Alabama Riots

11. Civil Rights Movement

12. Scottsboro Boys’ Case
The case that occurred in 1926 in Alabama (when the story takes place)
9 boys were accusing of raping two white men
Boys were brought to trial and convicted
The white “victims” later admitted to lying about the story

13. Scottsboro Boys Case

14. The South in the 1930s Recovering from Civil War Had an active KKK
Many in the South still believed in and strictly followed the Jim Crow Laws
One of the poorest states during the Depression
Few blacks owned property and few voted because of racism

15. 1930s Alabama