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Welcome to To Kill a Mockingbird presentation.
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Dirt farming in rural Alabama was grueling and showed little profit. The Cunninghams were this type of subsistence farmer.
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President Roosevelt - FDR “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
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Child in a “Hooverville” A Hooverville is a shanty town created by homeless unemployed people.
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“Colored only” water fountain An example of segregation in the Jim Crow South.
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White Trade Only sign Another example of segregation in the Jim Crow South.
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Going to Town on a Saturday Afternoon Like the trial week in To Kill a Mockingbird, Saturdays were a time for rural Southerners, black and white, to dress up, see their friends and socialize.
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Sharecropper’s son This is actually a photo of a young boy in Chesnee, SC, but little Walter Cunningham would have looked much the same.
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The Great Depression – a shared hardship
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A Southern lawyer in his office
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This is a lynching, a common form of punishment for African Americans who offended the white community.
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Works Cited www.memory.loc.gov www.musarium.com/withoutsanctuary/
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