• Historical Background of To Kill A Mockingbird
  • Historical Context of To Kill A Mockingbird- The Big Read
  • Understanding To Kill A Mockingbird: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historic Documents
  • To Kill A Mockingbird & Harper Lee
  • A Map of Alabama

The Scottsboro Trials

  • Famous American Trials “The Scottsboro Boys” Trials 1931 – 1937
  • The First Scottsboro Trials, & A History of the case
  • The Scottsboro Trials- Historical Context
  • The 6th Amendment
  • Right to Counsel
  • Right to A Jury Trial
  • Legal Dictionary- The 6th Amendment
  • Juries in the 1930s

The Great Depression

  • The Great Depression- PBS Article
  • The Great Depression – PBS Timeline
  • The Great Depression- The History Channel
  • The Great Depression

Civil Rights History

  • The Missouri Compromise- Library of Congress
  • The Missouri Compromise- PBS
  • The Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v. Sandford)- PBS
  • The Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v. Sandford)
  • John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry- PBS
  • John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry- The Library of Virginia
  • John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry- The History Chanel
  • The American Civil War- The History Chanel
  • The American Civil War- U.S. Dept of the Interior
  • The Reconstruction Period – the History Chanel
  • The Reconstruction Period- Sparksnotes
  • The Emancipation Proclamation- PBS
  • The Emancipation Proclamation- National Archives and Records Administration
  • The Plessy v. Ferguson decision- PBS
  • The Plessy v. Ferguson decision
  • The Plessy v. Ferguson decision- enotes
  • The Jim Crow Laws- PBS
  • The Jim Crow Laws- U.S. Dept of the Interior
  • The Jim Crow Laws- Ferris University
  • The Brown v. the Board of Education decision- The U.S. dept of the Interior
  • The Brown v. the Board of Education decision
  • The Brown v. the Board of Education decision- PBS
  • The Little Rock Nine
  • The Little Rock Nine
  • Emmett Till- PBS
  • Emmett Till- Biography.com
  • Rosa Parks
  • the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • the Montgomery Bus Boycott- History Chanel
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  • the March on Washington
  • The March on Washington
  • The March on Washington
  • Behind The March on Washington
  • The March on Washington- Life Magazine
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • The Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • The Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • The Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • The Civil Rights Era- Sparksnotes
  • Additional Resources

The South in the 1930s

  • Growing up White in the South in the 1930s
  • Growing up Black in the South in the 1930s
  • Race Relations in the South in the 1930s
  • American Cultural History
  • Encyclopedia of Alabama- Poverty
  • Alabama History Timeline
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Culture PPT or PDF version
  • Alabama in the 1930s
  • Roles of Southern Women
  • Southern Women Trailblazers (hover over the story tab at the top right for drop-down options: Suffrage, Education, Workforce, Civil Rights Movement)
  • Narratives from people who lived in the south
  • Multiple resources with information on the 1930s
  • Farming in The 1930s
  • America in The 1930s
  • Documenting the American South
  • Religion and the US South

The 1950s & Now

  • American Culture of the 1950s
  • American History: Life in the 1950s- Voice of America
  • 1950s- The History Chanel
  • Popular 20th Century Foods
  • 2012 [This is the only point you can use Wikipedia.com - it is to help you find information you will then look up using other, reliable resources]

Harper Lee

  • Harper Lee
  • Harper Lee’s Novel Achievement- The Smithsonian
  • Harper Lee (About)- The Big Read
  • Harper Lee- Biography.com
  • To Kill A Mockingbird Publishing History
  • Harper Lee Interview #1
  • Harper Lee Interview #2
  • Monroe, Alabama
  • Truman Capote & Harper Lee