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Harper lee

Harper lee. To kill a mockingbird-1960. Lee was 6 during Scottsboro Trials. Lee’s family. DAD. MOM. Mental illness Rarely left house Bipolar?. lawyer and member of the Alabama state legislature (Atticus). Childhood. Lived in Alabama. Education.

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Harper lee

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  1. Harper lee To kill a mockingbird-1960

  2. Lee was 6 during Scottsboro Trials

  3. Lee’s family DAD MOM Mental illness Rarely left house Bipolar? • lawyer and member of the Alabama state legislature (Atticus)

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

  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

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