NNDB-Harper Lee:
How did Harper Lee earn a living during the writing of To Kill a Mockingbird? A gift from
friends a year wagus so she could Reith http://www.nndb.com/people/572/000025497/
According to Lee, how did she feel her debut novel, TKM would be received? She never felt she
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Encyclopedia of World Biography on Harper Lee:
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What other name does the author go by?Nelle,
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How many copies of TKM were sold in 1982?over 1060
The Northern Mockingbird:
The Northern Mockingbird is the state bird of what state? Texas
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How old are baby mockingbirds when they leave the nest?10-12 days old
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History of Jim Crow:
(History of Racial Etiquette) How were blacks required to refer to white males of authority? "Boss"
or "Cap'n" http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/resources/lessonplans/hs_es_etiquette.htm
(Geography)What was the first African American journal in the US, and when did it make its
first appearance? Freedoms journal
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What was Jim Crow:
Why couldn’t a black man shake hands with a white man?It suggested they were soshuly equil
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What did Joseph Boskin, author of Urban Racial Violence, state as the first trait of the 1900 riot?
The racist myth of Negroes’ uncontrollable desire to rape white women acquired a strategic
position in the defense of the lynching practice. However, homicides and felonious assault, not
rape, were most frequently cited in explanation of mob action. Next in importance, from the
viewpoint of number of cases, is rape and attempted rape—25.3 per cent of the victims.
Concerning this figure, Myrdal states: “There is much reason to believe that this figure has been
inflated by the fact that a mob which makes the accusation of rape is secure from any further
investigation; by the broad Southern definition of rape to include all sexual relations between
Negro men and white women; and by the psychopathic fears of white women in their contacts
with Negro men.”7 Another fact which refutes the fallacy of rape as being the primary cause of
Negro lynchings is that between 1882 and 1927, 92 women were victims of lynch mobs: 76
Negro and 16 white.8 Certainly they could not have been rapists.
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The Scottsboro Trial:
Historical Context: How was Tom Robinson’s trial similar to the Scottsboro Trial?The boys are
accused of raping two white women with no evidence of it happening.,.
Conclusion: When was the last defendant (Scottsboro boy) released from prison?
June 9, 1950 The last Scottsboro defendant is released from prison
http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/scottsboro/chronolo.htm
The Scottsboro Boys Trial:
Chronology: What happened on July of 1937?
July 26, 1937 Charges against four men are dropped.
http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/scottsboro/chronolo.htm
Letters and Accounts: What is the one thing Roy said he wanted his mother to send him the
most? In a letter to his mother he wrote, "I am all lonely and thinking of you...I feel like I can eat
some of your cooking Mom."
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/SB_bSBs.html
Comparing Prices During the Great Depression:
How much did a sweater cost then? Now?$1.00 now $69
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What is a doctor’s weekly salary then? Now? A few dollars per person, some only got paid by
barter so may get a chicken as payment.
Now they make $150,000 to $300,000 a year.
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