1. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD-1960 HARPER LEE

2. Lee was 6 during Scottsboro Trials

3. LEE’S FAMILY DAD lawyer and member of the Alabama state legislature (Atticus) MOM Mental illness Rarely left house Bipolar?

4. CHILDHOOD Lived in Alabama Her BFF was Truman Capote (Dill) Education Became interested in literature in high school All girl college

5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Loosely autobiographical Coming-of-age novel Tomboy heroine, Scout Finch Set in Maycomb, Alabama Height of the Great Depression

6. 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

7. 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