to kill a mockingbird context

SLAVE TRADE (racism)

• slave trade wasnt abolished in america till 1865 
• didnt stop places like alabama having racist attitudes

CIVIL WAR (racism)

• Between northern united states and eleven southern states
• the south wanted to keep slavery
• attitudes did not change in most places- blacks in maycomb dont have education, jobs or opportunities like the white people

KU KLUX KLAN (racism)

• the klan believed white people were superior
• although atticus said the klan would never come back the lynch mob outside the jail suggests its still a real threat

GREAT DEPRESION (poverty)

• people like the cunninghams suffering due to the wall street crash
• walter is stuck in the cycle of poverty
• affected everyone as it was a…