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 Cover of To Kill a Mockingbird (Novel) (1960)

 

 

Emmett Till

 

Emmett Till poses with his mother, Mamie Till, about five years before his brutal murder.

"Emmett Till and His Mother." Gale Middle School Online Collection, Gale, 2018. Gale In Context: Middle School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/TYBHPD459329681/MSIC?u=pl2394&sid=bookmark-MSIC&xid=3eae2d9a. Accessed 9 Sept. 2021.

Scottsboro Trials

Deputy Sheriff Charles McComb (left) and attorney Samuel Leibowitz (second from left) confer with seven of the nine youths held in the Scottsboro case, May 1, 1935. The nine black youths were charged with the rape of two white women of Scottsboro, Alabama. (AP/Wide World Photos)

Deputy Sheriff Charles McComb (left) and attorney Samuel Leibowitz (second from left) confer with seven of the nine youths held in the Scottsboro case, May 1, 1935. The nine black youths were charged with the rape of two white women of Scottsboro, Alabama. (AP/Wide World Photos)

"Scottsboro Trial." Crime and Punishment in America Reference Library, edited by Richard C. Hanes, et al., vol. 4: Primary Sources, UXL, 2005, pp. 160-172. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3441000109/UHIC?u=land25300&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=f47d9e98. Accessed 9 Sept. 2021.

Segregation

Black students attend school in a one-room shack with their teacher, Mrs. Althea Jones.

Black students attend school in a one-room shack with their teacher, Mrs. Althea Jones.Bettmann/Getty Images

"Jim Crow Laws." Gale Middle School Online Collection, Gale, 2021. Gale In Context: Middle School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/UJJLIB456321484/MSIC?u=pl2394&sid=bookmark-MSIC&xid=a52097d5. Accessed 9 Sept. 2021.

The Role of Women (!930s)

The dominant look for womens everyday wear in the 1930s was the simple print dress made of synthetic material, a striking difference from the natural fabrics of the 1920s silhouettes. UPI/Corbis- Bettmann.

The dominant look for women's everyday wear in the 1930s was the simple print dress made of synthetic material, a striking difference from the natural fabrics of the 1920s silhouettes.© UPI/Corbis- Bettmann.

"The dominant look for womens everyday wear in the 1930s was the simple print dress made of..." American Decades, edited by Judith S. Baughman, et al., vol. 4: 1930-1939, Gale, 2001. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/PC3468387474/UHIC?u=land25300&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=eaf798b4. Accessed 9 Sept. 2021.

The Great Depression

A thirteen-year-old sharecropper plows a field near Americus, Georgia, 1937. The Great Depression intensified the severe poverty of many rural farmers. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

A thirteen-year-old sharecropper plows a field near Americus, Georgia, 1937. The Great Depression intensified the severe poverty of many rural farmers.THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

"A thirteen-year-old sharecropper plows a field near Americus, Georgia, 1937. The Great Depression..." Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, edited by Colin A. Palmer, 2nd ed., vol. 3, Macmillan Reference USA, 2006. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/PC3444787200/UHIC?u=land25300&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=0eef1d41. Accessed 9 Sept. 2021.

Jim Crow Laws

Segregated drinking fountain in use in the American South.Bettmann/CORBIS

"Jim Crow Laws." Gale U.S. History Online Collection, Gale, 2007. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2380001126/UHIC?u=land25300&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=d7201168. Accessed 9 Sept. 2021.

Harper Lee

Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, visits the courthouse of her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1965. In the acclaimed novel, Lee used Monroeville as the model for the fictional town of Maycomb.

Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, visits the courthouse of her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1965. In the acclaimed novel, Lee used Monroeville as the model for the fictional town of Maycomb.© Donald Uhrbrock/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images

"Harper Lee in Courthouse in Monroeville, Alabama." Gale U.S. History Online Collection, Gale, 1961. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/HPZXVC959011331/UHIC?u=land25300&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=8d132a6b. Accessed 9 Sept. 2021.