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Alabama in the 1930s - Coggle Diagram
Alabama in the 1930s
The Jim Crow Era
Racial segregation
White and Black marriage was illegal
Black people had to sit in different train cars than white people
School books were only used by the color who used them before them
Whites and Blacks were not allowed to be served in the same room
Punishments could vary between a laugh to a hanging to the death, just because of back talking
Black people were not allowed to be buried in the same area as White people
The trial of the Scottsboro Boys
Blacks fought to abolish the Jim Crow laws
The Great Depression
16 Million Americans Unemployed
Harper Lee experienced this as a child and her experience of it for her book
"The only thing that we have to fear is fear its self." Speech from Roosevelt
As many as 1 in 4 were out of a job
Most had their pay cut
Black and White men came together to fight for a better future
The Dust Bowl
Many Oklahoma farmers fled the Dust Bowl
The dust storms lasted for most of the 1930s
The Civil Rights Movement
I Have A Dream Speech
Rosa Parks Not Giving Up Her Bus Seat
The Little Rock Nine