To Kill a Mockingbird
Internet Sites --a great pathfinder from Walter Johnson High School.
Library of Congress Learning Site --scroll down to the links.
Link to decades page --some great links to good information.
To Kill a Mockingbird: Growing up in the 1930's --web quest by Jill Clark and Jan Hedberg.
Great Depression and World War II --includes links to American reactions to the Depression, art and entertainment in the 30's and 40's, the Dust Bowl, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, labor unions during the Depression and the New Deal, race relations in the 30's and 40's and World War II.
Southern Culture --symbols, stereotypes and Southernisms.
Famous American Trials --the Scottsburo Boys.
Rosewood --State of Florida site with great links. Rosewood --the report.
“Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination.”
Library of Congress. 21 Oct 2002
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.html
.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission . “ Facts About
Race/Color Discrimination.” 18 Oct 2002
http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/fs-race.html
.
“Setting the Historical Context of the Novel: The Civil Rights
Era.” Chicago Public Library. 10 Oct
2002
http://www.chipublib.org/003cpl/onebook/era.html