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Lit/Writ: To Kill a Mockingbird

Websites for Background Information

The Civil Rights Movement in the South 1954-1963

Civil Rights Overview:
http://www.learnersonline.com/weekly/lessons03/week3/index.htm

Civil Rights Struggle:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html

The Freedom Riders - a brief history:
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/freeride.html

The Freedom Riders - NPR article:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5149667

The Freedom Riders - PBS website:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/05_riders.html

 

The Death of Emmett Till

The Death of Emmett Till:
http://www.emmetttillmurder.com

The Death of Emmett Till - info and images from PBS documentary site:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till

The Impact of Emmett Till's Murder - NPR article:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1969702

The Emmett Till Case is Re-Opened in 2004:
http://www.slate.com/id/2120788/

 

The Great Depression

The Great Depression - PBS.org:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/peopleevents/pandeAMEX05.html

The Great Depression - several links and extension activities:
http://www.42explore2.com/depresn.htm

 

Growing Up Black and White in the 1930s

Growing Up Black in the 1930s American South:
http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/mculley.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0730

Growing Up White in the 1930s American South:
http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/girl.html

Digital History:

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/children_depression/depression_children_menu.cfm

Riding the Rails - A timeline of the Great Depression and Homeless Teenagers:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/timeline/index.html

Teaching Children About the Great Depression:

http://www.erroluys.com/RidingtheRails.htm

  

Jim Crow Laws

A Sampling of Jim Crow laws:
http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm

Jim Crow laws - PBS.org:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/

What Was Jim Crow?:
http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/what.htm

 

Key Segregation Trials

A Century of Racial Segregation - "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty (Library of Congress Exhibition):

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-segregation.html

Brown vs. Board of Education:
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/brown.html

Brown vs. Board of Education:
http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/enlight/brown.htm

The Scottsboro Boys' Trial:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

The Scottsboro Trial - PBS.org:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/

 

Famous Trials

Famous Trials - UMKC School of Law - Professor Douglas Linder:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

 

The New Deal

New Deal Legislation:

http://www.umsl.edu/~hurleya/Newdeal.htm

New Deal Legislation and Photos:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAnewdeal.htm

 

The South in the 30s/40s

Life in the 1930s - print resources:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/PRINT/printfr.htm

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

THE WAR: The Witnesses/Four Towns/Mobile, Alabama - PBS:

http://www.pbs.org/thewar/the_witnesses_towns_mobile.htm

 

Supreme Court History

10 Important Supreme Court Decisions in Black History:

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmsupremecourt.html

Fathom: The Source for Online Learning:

http://www.fathom.com/feature/122286/

Landmark Supreme Court Cases:
http://www.landmarkcases.org/

Milestone Cases in Supreme Court History:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101289.html

PBS Videos about the Supreme Court:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/about/index.html
 

United States History

WWW-VL: History: United States: 1930-1939:

http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1930s.html

 

Women in the 1930s

1920s and 1930s - Women's History:

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/1920s1930s/1920s_and_1930s_Womens_History.htm

Discovery Education - Women of the 1930s:

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/womenofthecentury/decadebydecade/1930s.html

 

Harper Lee - Biography

Harper Lee Life Stories, Books, & Links:

http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/harper.lee.asp

The Life of Harper Lee:
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-lee-harper.asp