Background TKaM 3
- Created by: Qiao-Chu
- Created on: 17-03-13 17:40
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- Background to To Kill a Mockingbird
- Great Depression and Maycomb
- Atticus mentions that times are hard for people, lots of poverty, each Finches weren't wealthy
- Cunninghams hit hardest, tough decisions - welfare job/ farm goes to ruins
- Bob Ewell given relief checks by government to feed family
- Explains why so much racism in Maycomb - landowners blamed end of slavery fro loss of lands, profits and status
- Racist American Society 1930s
- Segregation was normal
- In the South a black man could be lynched for looking at a white woman
- 1930 Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith lynched - accused of **** and murder but not convicted
- Changes in the 1950s
- Early 1950s still denied basic human rights
- Mid-1950s, black activists began peaceful protests - Civil Rights Movement
- Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, bus boycotts, sit-ins, marches
- Some white people supported the movement
- Book written in late 1950s when CRM was at its peak - captured mood of hope for future
- Great Depression and Maycomb
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