https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz Background Research en-us 2022-01-04 14:07:56 UTC 2025-12-11 13:20:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Shakinghands.png gabrielletroutman https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz/wish/1974244679 2022-01-04 14:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz/wish/1974244679 gabrielletroutman https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz/wish/1974244681 2022-01-04 14:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz/wish/1974244681 gabrielletroutman https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz/wish/1974244683 1. Truman Capote and Harper were childhood best friends and would later work together on The New Yorker. Truman asked her to accompany him in Kansas while he looked into the murder of the Clutter family.
2. She was on the path of being a lawyer like her father but six months before she would graduate she quit to move to New York and do writing.
3. Her second book, which was a manuscript called Go Set a Watchman was published when she was 89 years old
4. To Kill A Mockingbird was actually based on her and her family's life. She really only changed the names of the real people.
5. Lee became a multimillionaire because of To Kill A Mockingbird ]]> 2022-01-04 14:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz/wish/1974244683 gabrielletroutman https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz/wish/1974244684 Harper Lee's book To Kill A Mockingbird was inspired by her life growing up in Monroeville, Alabama. The book is based on a trial where her father served as a defense counsel for two black men accused of murdering a white storekeeper.]]> 2022-01-04 14:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz/wish/1974244684 gabrielletroutman https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz/wish/1974244686 The Great Depression started with the stock market crash which was where investors traded 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in one day; billions were lost and investors were wiped out. Because of this, consumer spending and investment dropped causing declines in employment and in industrial output.]]> 2022-01-04 14:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz/wish/1974244686 gabrielletroutman https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz/wish/1974244687 Homer Plessy lived in Louisiana where there was a law which required separate railway cars for the blacks and the whites.  Plessy was asked to seat in the whites only car but technically, under the Louisiana law he was a black man. Plessy was told to vacate the car but refused and was arrested. During court, Plessy's lawyers argued that this law violated the thirteenth and fourteenth amendment. The judge disagreed and Plessy was convicted.]]> 2022-01-04 14:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz/wish/1974244687 gabrielletroutman https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz/wish/1974244688 2022-01-04 14:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz/wish/1974244688 gabrielletroutman https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz/wish/1974244689 1. All marriages between any black person, even if they are descent from the fourth generation, and any white person are forever prohibited.
2. No black person can play games or be in company with a white person.
3. A white prisoner cannot be chained or handcuffed to a black person.]]> 2022-01-04 14:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielletroutman/62kiokdrumt9cplz/wish/1974244689