Context in To Kill a Mockingbird

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Context in To Kill a Mockingbird
- Racism
  - Slavery and Inequality
    - Abolished in 1865, yet black inferiority was still the normality in most places.
- Segregation and Jim Crow laws
  - Segregation began in 1980in Southern America
    - The separation led to white supremacy
- The Scottsboro Trials
  - Nine black men were accused of **** in 1931
    - The case included an all white jury, rushed trials, attemped lynching and an anrgy mob and an overall miscarriage of justice
      - Which links to Tom's trial as he was an innocent man
- Blame
  - Poor whites blamed the blacks for their misfortunes, even though their hatred was misplaced
- The Great Depression
- The civil war/ Civil rights movement
  - (The general mood when Lee was writing the book)
  - Black activists like Martin Luther King began a series of peaceful protests during the mid 50s
This was the longest downfall in economy. Roosevelt became president in 1933 and released the 'New Deal'.

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