1. Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird History & Background Notes

2. Harper Lee- Biographical Information Work:Reservation clerk for Eastern Airlines in 1950s Born: 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama Youngest of 4 children Parents: Amasa Coleman Lee & Frances Finch Lee Education: Huntingdon College(1944-1945) University of Alabama (1945-1949)- studied law Oxford University- studied one year

3. Harper Lee- To Kill a Mockingbird J.B. Lippincott: Publishing company who suggested she rewrite novel 1961: Won Pulitzer Prize for Literature 1960: Published To Kill a Mockingbird 1955-1958: Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird

4. To Kill a Mockingbird- real life inspiration Maycomb= Monroeville, Alabama Dill= Truman Capote -- wrote In Cold Blood Fathers’ professions: attorneys Avid readers: Harper Lee & Scout Scottsboro Boys Trial= Tom Robinson trial

5. Civil Rights Movement 1954: Brown VS. Board of Education Rosa Parks

6. Civil Rights Movement 1955-1956: Montgomery Bus Boycott Martin Luther King Autherine Lucy University of Alabama

7. Civil Rights Movement Little Rock, Arkansas 19571960 To Kill a Mockingbird published

8. Civil Rights Movement 1961 A brave group of men and women, black and white, young and old boarded buses, trains and planes and headed for the deep South to test desegregation. To Kill a Mockingbird released. Freedom Riders

9. Civil Rights Movement 1963 The March on Washington 1964: The Civil Rights Act is passed.

10. To Kill a Mockingbird- Censorship Banned for: - profanity -“inciting racial conflict” - use of racial slurs However, TKAM remains one of the most-taught, best-loved books in high schools.