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To Kill A Mockingbird CONTEXT 1930's (The Scottsboro Case (A fight…
To Kill A Mockingbird CONTEXT 1930's
The Scottsboro Case
During the 1930s. The case began on March 25, 1931,
Nine black youths falsely charged with raping two white women.
Occurred in Alabama
A fight broke out between a group of black and white hobos on a train, and the whites were thrown off the train.
Armed men rounded up nine black youths and took them to jail at paint rock.
They were just going to be charged with assault then the two women where found hiding dressed in boys clothes. Although there was no evidence connecting the youth to the women, the nine youths were charged with raping the women.
The women ,who had sexual relations with some of the white men thrown off the train and feared prosecution for their sexual activity with the white men so agreed to testify against the black youths.
The all-white jury convicted the nine, and all but the youngest, who was 12 years old, were sentenced to death.
The announcement of the verdict and sentences brought a roar of protest in the North. The Communist Party USA
The Great Depression
On Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed, triggering the start of The Great Depression.
The worst economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world.
It spread from the United States to the rest of the world, lasting from the end of 1929 until the early 1940s.
More than 15 million Americans (one-quarter of the workforce) became unemployed
The poor congregated in cardboard shacks in so-called Hoovervilles on the edges of cities across the nation. Although few starved, hunger and malnutrition affected many.
By 1932, one of every four workers was unemployed. Banks failed and life savings were lost, leaving many Americans destitute.
The depression also led to a drop in the market price of farm crops, which meant that farmers were forced to produce more goods in order to earn the same amount of money.
The American Civil War (1861-1865)
More than 600,000 Northerners and Southerners died in the war
Nearly every American lost someone in the war. The war was so divisive that it split some families completely in two.
Brought the states—in the North as well as the South—closer together.
The war ended the debate over slavery that had divided North and South since the drafting of the Constitution in 1787.
The Civil War was also a significant event in world history because the North’s victory proved that democracy worked.
Lincoln: ". . . we here highly resolve . . . that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
south suffered because of change
Harper Lee
Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, a sleepy small town similar in many ways to Maycomb
Lee’s father was a lawyer like scout.
In 1931, when Lee was five, nine young black men were accused of raping two white women near Scottsboro, Alabama
Lee began To Kill a Mockingbird in the mid-1950s, after moving to New York to become a writer.
She completed the novel in 1957 and published it, with revisions, in 1960, just before the peak of the American civil rights movement.
Mental Disabiliies
Lack of Awareness
People thought it was a disease or they were ill
Mental asylums
'treatments'- beaten or attacked
Terms like autism only started being used in 1940's