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1 Welcome to To Kill a Mockingbird presentation.

2 Dirt farming in rural Alabama was grueling and showed little profit. The Cunninghams were this type of subsistence farmer.

3 President Roosevelt - FDR “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

4 Child in a “Hooverville” A Hooverville is a shanty town created by homeless unemployed people.

5 “Colored only” water fountain An example of segregation in the Jim Crow South.

6 White Trade Only sign Another example of segregation in the Jim Crow South.

7 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.

8 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.

9 The Great Depression – a shared hardship

10 A Southern lawyer in his office

11 This is a lynching, a common form of punishment for African Americans who offended the white community.

12 Works Cited www.memory.loc.gov www.musarium.com/withoutsanctuary/


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