Context in To Kill a Mockingbird
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- Created on: 10-04-16 17:50
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- Context in To Kill a Mockingbird
- Racism
- Slavery and Inequality
- Abolished in 1865, yet black inferiority was still the normality in most places.
- Slavery and Inequality
- Segregation and Jim Crow laws
- Segregation began in 1980in Southern America
- The separation led to white supremacy
- Segregation began in 1980in Southern America
- The Scottsboro Trials
- Nine black men were accused of **** in 1931
- The case included an all white jury, rushed trials, attemped lynching and an anrgy mob and an overall miscarriage of justice
- Which links to Tom's trial as he was an innocent man
- The case included an all white jury, rushed trials, attemped lynching and an anrgy mob and an overall miscarriage of justice
- Nine black men were accused of **** in 1931
- Blame
- Poor whites blamed the blacks for their misfortunes, even though their hatred was misplaced
- The Great Depression
- The civil war/ Civil rights movement
- (The general mood when Lee was writing the book)
- Black activists like Martin Luther King began a series of peaceful protests during the mid 50s
- Racism
- This was the longest downfall in economy. Roosevelt became president in 1933 and released the 'New Deal'.
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