To Kill a Mockingbird Research

Jim Crow Laws

• The History of Jim Crow:  http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.htm

• Origin of Jim Crow:  http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/jcrow.htm

• Effects of Jim Crow Laws:  http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/1/96.01.01.x.html

Hate groups - Klu Klux Klan (KKK)

• KKK: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkkk.htm

Southern customs and foods  

• Documenting the American South - University of North Carolina
  http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/southlit.html

The Scottsboro Boys

• PBS special on Scottsboro Boys:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/index.html

• Famous American Trials: Scottsboro Trial  http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

• Parallels between TKAM and Scottsboro Trials:  http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/scottsboro/scottsbo.htm

• Court TV:  http://www.courttv.com/archive/greatesttrials/scottsboro/

1930s: Culture and the Great Depression

• American Culture 1930s:  http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade30.html

• 1920s and 1930s page:  http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/depress.html

• Index of 1930s US resources:  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/INDEX/index.html

• Links to 1920s and 1930s:  http://ocean.st.usm.edu/~wsimkins/bookends.links.html

Civil War (major battles)

Gettysburg (turned the tide against the South)

• Military History Online (Gettysburg):  http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/gettysburg/

• Gettysburg Discussion Group:  http://www.gdg.org/

Antietam (major losses)

• Major Battles of the Civil War:  http://www.civilwarhome.com/antietam.htm

• Antietam on the Web:  http://aotw.org/

Martin Luther King Jr.

• Civil Rights Movement:  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjimcrow.htm

• Martin Luther King:  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkingML.htm

Rosa Parks

• Rosa Parks Portal:  http://e-portals.org/Parks/