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The 1930s and To Kill a Mockingbird

 Yahoo U.S. History-- The 1930s
This is a gateway site that will link you to other websites specializing in events of the 1930s.
 Westmont Junior High Media Center
A good collection of sites organized by decade
 Kingwood College Library
Search for 1930s Art, Architecture, Literature, Fashion, Fads, Personalites, Education and Entertainment.
 The 20th Century Year by Year
Click on a particular year from the 20th century to view important events.
 Chico High School Library Decades Page
This site features a link to related sources for To Kill a Mockingbird.
 America in the 1930s
View information about different subjects of the time.
 The New Deal Network
The Great Depression, the 1930s and the Roosevelt Administration
 1930s Setting for To Kill A Mockingbird
Created by Walter Johnson HS Media Center, this site is rich with background information.


Scottsboro Boys Webquest
Students are expected to use these sites to find information about the Scottsboro Boys trial.

Overview of the trial and the story from:
Court TV's Greatest Trials Website
http://www.courttv.com/archive/greatesttrials/scottsboro/trials.html

Images from the trial from:
University of Missouri-Kansas City's School of Law Famous Trials Website
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_imag.html

An essay about Judge Horton by law professor Doug Lindner:
University of Missouri-Kansas City's School of Law Famous Trials Website
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/trialheroes/essayhorton.html


Great Depression Museum Webquest
Students may use these or other sites to discover objects for their Great Depression presentation.  This may be a helpful jumping off point. 

Great Depression: American Cultural History  http://www.geocities.com/bettye_sutton/greatdepression.html

Songs of The Great Depression  http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/cherries.html

America in the 1930's http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html


Photographs of The Great Depression http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdepression.htm

The Dust Bowl http://www.usd.edu/anth/epa/dust.html

The Great Depression on African-Americans http://mtungsten.freeservers.com/

The New Deal Network http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm

A Decade of Hardship http://www.museum.siu.edu/university_museum/museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/school_pages/bourbonnais/

 

Photographs by:

Ben Shahn: http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap01.html

Arthur Rothstein: http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap05.html

Walker Evans:   http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-in/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@filreq(+@field(AUTHOR+@band(Evans,+Walker,+1903+1975,+))+@field(COLLID+fsa))

Dorthea Lange: http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap03.html

Photos of Segregation:  http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/085_disc.html

  

Some other sites for consideration:

http://www.scs.k12.tn.us/STT99_WQ/STT99/Houston_HS/traversej/traversequest/studquest.htm

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=213

http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/decs3.html

http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/geography/violence.htm

http://www.atech.org/faculty/bouchard/EnglishI/TKM/kill_a_mockingbird.pdf

http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/outofthedust/resources.html
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