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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD-1960 HARPER LEE
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Lee was 6 during Scottsboro Trials
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LEE’S FAMILY DAD lawyer and member of the Alabama state legislature (Atticus) MOM Mental illness Rarely left house Bipolar?
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CHILDHOOD Lived in Alabama Her BFF was Truman Capote (Dill) Education Became interested in literature in high school All girl college
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Loosely autobiographical Coming-of-age novel Tomboy heroine, Scout Finch Set in Maycomb, Alabama Height of the Great Depression
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THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 Stock market CRASHED America plunged into its greatest economic depression CAUSES: High spending (gap so working class couldn’t make $) Cost of American goods abroad increased Lines of credit were overextended
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CIVIL RIGHTS 1860s= SLAVERY ABOLISHED JIM CROW LAWS (legal racial segregation) Education, housing, transportation, public facilities 1920s-1930s=Civil Rights Movement struggled KKK, race riots, lynchings 1954=Brown v. Board of Education Separate but equal was unconstitutional, demanded integration 1964= Civil Rights Act, 1965=Voting Rights Act 1968= Civil Rights Act- for all Americans by law
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