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The stock market crash of October 1929 caused millions of investors to be put out of business. Because investment dropped, there was a decline in money and the economy was failing. Many people struggled to get jobs, and if they did, their salary was very low.

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A racially segregated town with very stubborn people and very impoverished. A very boring town with not much to do keeping them old fashioned.

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The Great Depression was a time of suffering in America because of Overproduction, executive inaction, and lack of international tariffs.

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The South is known for being diverse with it's culture and history.  The South also know for having a very distinguished sense of culture which makes them stand out from the rest of the US.

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The South is the southern region of the united states the south is known for "racially diverse". The South for its culture and history also its fashion and music style and of course Their food. they are different from the rest of the USA but Thats why its Unique.

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Maycomb County isn't a real place but it is based on the birthplace of Harper Lee's Childhood home in Monroeville, Alabama. Monroe had a large population that has escalated through out time and their economy is not rich but also not poor. At the time the book was based on their was segregation so their was a lot of racism at the time but the place then and now is very sunny and bright.

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Harper Lee was born April 28 1926. Born in a small town of Monroeville Alabama. Harper Lee is a strong hard working  women, she worked a day job while still working on her first novel. Harper Lee had a long friendship with Truman Capote. Her father, Amasa Lee, is an attorney who served in the state legislature in Alabama. To Kill a Mockingbird was honored with many awards including the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 and was made into a film in 1962 starring Gregory Peck. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

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"Nelle" Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. She grew up in Monroeville, a small town in southwest Alabama. Her father was a lawyer who also served in the state legislature from 1926-1938. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader. After she attended public school in Monroeville she attended Huntingdon College, a private school for women in Montgomery for a year and then transferred to the University of Alabama. After graduation, Lee studied at Oxford University. She returned to the University of Alabama to study law but withdrew six months before graduation.

She moved to New York in 1949 and worked as a reservations clerk for Eastern Air Lines and British Overseas Airways. While in New York, she wrote several essays and short stories, but none were published. Her agent encouraged her to develop one short story into a novel. In order to complete it, Lee quit working and was supported by friends who believed in her work. In 1957, she submitted the manuscript to J. B. Lippincott Company. Although editors found the work too episodic, they saw promise in the book and encouraged Lee to rewrite it. In 1960, with the help of Lippincott editor Tay Hohoff, To Kill a Mockingbird was published.

To Kill a Mockingbird became an instant popular success. A year after the novel was published, 500,000 copies had been sold and it had been translated into 10 languages. Critical reviews of the novel were mixed. It was only after the success of the film adaptation in 1962 that many critics reconsidered To Kill a Mockingbird.

To Kill a Mockingbird was honored with many awards including the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 and was made into a film in 1962 starring Gregory Peck. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It actually was honored with three awards: Gregory Peck won the Best Actor Award, Horton Foote won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar and a design team was awarded an Oscar for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration B/W. Lee worked as a consultant on the screenplay adaptation of the novel.

Author Truman Capote was Lee's next-door neighbor from 1928 to 1933. In 1959 Lee and Capote traveled to Garden City, Kan., to research the Clutter family murders for his work, In Cold Blood (1965). Capote dedicated In Cold Blood to Lee and his partner Jack Dunphy. Lee was the inspiration for the character Idabel in Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He in turn clearly influenced her character Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Harper Lee divides her time between New York and her hometown of Monroeville, Ala., where her sister Alice Lee practices law. Though she has published no other work of fiction, this novel continues to have a strong impact on successive generations of readers.

Harper Lee had many childhood experiences that are similar to those of her young narrator in To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch:

Harper Lee's Childhood

She grew up in the 1930s in a rural southern Alabama town.

Her father, Amasa Lee, is an attorney who served in the state legislature in Alabama.

Her older brother and young neighbor (Truman Capote) are playmates.

Harper Lee is an avid reader as a child.

She is 6 years old when the Scottsboro trials are widely covered in national, state and local newspapers.

Scout Finch's Childhood

She grew up in the 1930s in a rural southern Alabama town.

Her father, Atticus Finch, is an attorney who served in the state legislature in Alabama.

Her older brother (Jem) and young neighbor (Dill) are playmates.

Scout reads before she enters school and reads the Mobile Register newspaper in first grade.

She is 6 years old when the trial of Tom Robinson takes place.

Content last updated: October 31, 2001

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"Nelle" Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. She...

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the place they lived was a weird but mysterious place/community.

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The book and story is based on her life as Atticus Finch is based off of A.C Lee who is the father of Harper Lee making Jean Louise Finch or the narrator based off a fictionalized version of Harper Lee and these experiences and things she goes through actually happened to Harper Lee.Harper Lee was born April 28th 1926 and she died February 19th 2016 and her cause of death was a stroke.

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"The South '' is the part of America that was still segregated through the late 19th century (1980's ish). This segregation period was when black or known as "colored" people had to use objects such as water fountains and bathrooms separate from white people because of racism. In the south because of segregation there was a lot of oppression and systematic racism for not only black citizens but all ethnic people of color.

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The U.S. Justice System was a network of criminal justice systems at the federal, state, and special jurisdictional levels like military courts and territorial courts. The Judiciary Act of 1789 established the US federal justice system. And today the Department of Justice is colossus. The 2017 fiscal year budget request is $29.0 billion, which includes 118,110 positions, including a Deputy Attorney General (post established in 1950) and an Associate Attorney General (1977). The Department of Justice's job is to enforce law and and defend the interest of the United States according to the law. The Department of Justice controls crime and keeps people safe. Justice Department Obtains $1.4 Billion from Reckitt Benckiser Group in Largest Recovery in a Case Concerning an Opioid Drug in the United States

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The Great depression was an era in the 1930s where many families were losing their jobs so they had no way to provide for their families. In the book, its the same. Many of the people of Maycomb were affected by this era because they were unemployed which caused alot of troubles because people really needed jobs but this era caused everyone to lose their jobs and leave them to be poor.

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The judicial system in the South in the 1930s was heavily tilted against black people. On a formal level, blacks were treated equally by the legal system. The one exception to this was the fact that blacks were not allowed to serve on juries. This article argues that the outcome of each murder trial case was determined by what the defendants were, as much as, or even more than by what they had or had not done. Stereotyped and prejudicial attitudes to their gender and racial origins influenced the attitudes of both professionals and jurors and prevented them from considering the cases fully and fairly. Even though concerns remain on issues of fairness and equality in the criminal justice system, these problems are open for discussion and acknowledged as a challenge for practitioners, academics, and policymakers.

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The great Depression started with the crash of the stock market and it was also worsened by the Dust Bowl. The Dust bowl was a dust storm that attacked america during the Great Depression.

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Harper lee was one of the most celebrated american novelists for her best selling novel To Kill A Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, which portrays what happened after To Kill A Mockingbird, she was born 1926 and died 2016 (Age 89). She studied at The University of Alabama in Huntington College and won many prizes for her famous novel including Pulitzer-Prize she was the youngest of 4 children and she moved between New York and her hometown helping other famous authors.

Source: To Kill A Mocking Bird (book last page)
Source 2: https://www.biography.com/writer/harper-lee
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The Great Depression occurred due to a stock market crash which destabilized the economy of America and suffered millions of Americans. This all happened because of bank failures, overproduction, lack of international tariffs, and inaction of government.

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Maycomb, Alabama may be fictional but it is still pretty great and since it is focussed on one little girl it makes it easier to understand and since strange things happen its also attention grabbing as well. I especially like the fact that it is not plain and it has some pizaz to it

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Harper lee was born on April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, AL. She died February 19, 2016, in Monroeville, AL. She released To Kill a mocking bird in 1960. She got a prize for it in 1961.

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Race Relations in the 1930s and 1940s

The problems of the Great Depression affected virtually every group of Americans. No group was harder hit than African Americans, however. By 1932, approximately half of African Americans were out of work. In some Northern cities, whites called for African Americans to be fired from any jobs as long as there were whites out of work. Racial violence again became more common, especially in the South. Lynchings, which had declined to eight in 1932, surged to 28 in 1933.

Although most African Americans traditionally voted Republican, the election of President Franklin Roosevelt began to change voting patterns. Roosevelt entertained African American visitors at the White House and was known to have a number of black advisors. According to historian John Hope Franklin, many African Americans were excited by the energy with which Roosevelt began tackling the problems of the Depression and gained "a sense of belonging they had never experienced before" from his fireside chats.

Still, discrimination occurred in New Deal housing and employment projects, and President Roosevelt, for political reasons, did not back all of the legislation favored by such groups as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). When the U.S. entered World War II, labor leader A. Philip Randolph threatened to organize a march on Washington to protest job discrimination in the military and other defense-related activities. In response, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, stating that all persons, regardless of race, creed, color, or national origin, would be allowed to participate fully in the defense of the United States.

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Between the 1930's and 40's The U.S. Justice System was very biased and corrupted. there views, opinions, and overall perspective on black Americans  Were Negative And Utterly
Disrespectful. this led  those who  thought this way resort to  violence and hate because of the diversity  in skin color between the two races they belevied that the black Americans were below them in class an  that they shall not live in equality
and in a world were black Americans are not treated As human but as slaves....

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Maycomb, Alabama is an old town that’s very hot despite being very rainy described by the narrator within Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. Maycomb is a fictional town based off of To Kill A Mockingbird's authors hometown, Monroe County, Alabama. To Kill a Mockingbird taking place in Maycomb, Alabama during 1930–1940 represents two important periods of American history aka the Great Depression and the Jim Crow era as the one of them being the Great Depression is explained how it affects the characters and town within this paragraph, "The Great Depression is reflected in the poverty that affects all of the residents of Maycomb. Even the Finches, who are objectively better off than many of the other citizens in the area, are ultimately poor and living within the means available to them (SparkNotes)."

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To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during 1933-1935. These years place the events of the novel squarely within two important periods of American history: the Great Depression and the Jim Crow era. The Great Depression is reflected in the poverty that affects all of the residents of Maycomb. Even the Finches, who are objectively better off than many of the other citizens in the area, are ultimately poor and living within the means available to them. The years depicted in the novel also fall within the much longer period of time that modern historians often refer to as the Jim Crow era. This term describes the time from the late 19th century until the mid-1960s when black people in the United States could no longer be held in slavery, but where laws limited the social, political, and economic possibilities available to black citizens. We should remember that when Harper Lee wrote the novel in the late 1950s, the Great Depression was over, but Jim Crow laws were still present in substantial portions of the American South.

The fictional town of Maycomb, in the fictional Maycomb County, seems intended not to represent an exact location in the real world, but a kind of small Southern town that existed in the 1930s. Scout describes the town as old, tired, and suffocating. In addition to being literally appropriate, these descriptions also apply to more subtle social aspects of the town. The town is burdened, Atticus might say diseased, by social prejudices in general, and racism in particular. Maycomb is also sharply geographically divided along class lines. While more prosperous families like the Finches live in large houses close to the center of town, the Ewells live in a ramshackle cabin near the dump, out of sight of the rest of the town except at Christmas, when people drive their trees and trash to the dump. The only other dwellings in this area are the cabins where black families live, an indication that the town is both racially and economically segregated. The Ewells lack basic necessities like running water and insulation, and they frequently forage in the dump for food. "Every town the size of the Maycomb had families like the Ewells," Scout says, implying that the economic inequality is endemic to the region.

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To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during 1933-1935. These years place the events of the novel squarely within two important periods of American history: the Great Depression and the Jim Crow era. The Great Depression is reflected in the poverty that affects all of the residents of Maycomb.

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Harper Lee wrote Mockingbird based off her experience and analyisations as a kid. All the characters in the book are based off her family and friends. Just people in her life. That's why the story is told from the perspective of a white child.

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School: Huntingdon College & University of Alabama
- Decided to study law
- Divided her time between New York & Monroeville
Accomplishments:
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Numerous other literary awards and honors
Personality:
- From what has been said, Harper Lee had been against racism and was one of the very few white people back then that would actually stand up for a black person in general

Born: April 28, 1926
Death: Feburary 19, 2016

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May comb Alabama, Setting of the story, and during the great depression. According my source, Americans had to do agriculture to survive in 1931. After the civil war people in Alabama made crops and did plantations because the cotton prices sank. Also to continue that conversation Maycomb and Birmingham fincially indepenced also went down

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The Narrator believes that being a southerner is shameful. The southerner like to think that everything belongs to them, because they produce cotton, wheat, and rice. Southerners dislike northerners, because of the way northern's treat each other, and the southerns.

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America in the 1940s was very segregated, African Americans were free of slavery but were not yet equal. This was even before Jim Crow laws were enacted. There were separate schools, churches, bars, and restaurants. The criminal justice system too was segregated and biased. It was very rare that an African American person would have adequate representation and if they did, they still were convicted because of unjust juries (Garrison, "American Criminal Justice System 1930s-1940s).

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justice system in 1930 was against black people.The justice system first started in Boston in 1838, New York in 1844, and Philadelphia in 1854. Early on, police were not respected by the community, as corruption was rampant.