https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr Maroon Dogs en-us 2021-08-10 11:47:57 UTC 2026-02-21 11:39:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674283493 during the 1930s to the 40s the justice system was rigged against black people. the people of color in the south were not allowed on the jury and the majority of people were racist so almost all of the time people of color got convicted and punished by the court ]]> 2021-08-10 15:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674283493 mariamabah1 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674285650 Maycomb County is a small town located in Alabama. In the novel it's described as old and boring. There is so much racism and discrimination and the town is racially segregated and many of the citizens are (maybe) people of color and middle aged-people.]]> 2021-08-10 15:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674285650 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674287000 The Justice System was made because people were turning against Blacks, they were being treated like they were different or less than others. The Justice System ensures that all people are being treated equally, including the Blacks. In other words, the Justice System kept order among all people. This decreased the amount of discrimination and racial profiling. The Justice System is still in use today.

]]> 2021-08-10 15:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674287000 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674288023 "A stock market crash from 1929 to 1939"
https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/great-depression-history]]> 2021-08-10 15:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674288023 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674290413 In this book Maycomb Alabama is a town down in the south and it was like a suburban town were there are houses but not to close to each other and everything would end up being close and not that far walking distance. ]]> 2021-08-10 15:53:26 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674290413 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674290511 The Great Depression was a significant worldwide economic depression that began in the United States in the 1930's and lasted until 1945. The Great Depression began in 1929 in most nations and lasted until the late 1930's in others. Many people had lost their employment as a result of the Crisis. By 1932, 25–30% of the population had lost their jobs. They became destitute and homeless.]]> 2021-08-10 15:53:32 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674290511 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674291308 Harper Lees education life was not involved with others and she mainly focused on herself. She focused on writing and went to different universities. She knew writing was her true dream. In her early life her mother suffered from mental illness. Harper followed her writing dream.]]> 2021-08-10 15:54:11 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674291308 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674292654 In the South, the weather was quite humid, or rather not humid or, being able to be an environment where crops could be grown and sold to various people. Before the time of the early 1930s-1940s, slaves would be commonly bought and possessed by that of white slave owners. When the time of the 1930s came around, African American individuals began to gain more freedom and were given electricity as well at the time. Even though they still didn't have racial equality and racial justice and were often poor along with many other individuals being poor, things were beginning to shape well in the South.]]> 2021-08-10 15:55:08 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674292654 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674295196 This was caused by the crash of the stock market and many were unemployed and replaced with machines that do the job more efficiently.]]> 2021-08-10 15:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674295196 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674295208 Maycomb was a fictional city that was based on Monroeville, the place Lee grew up in. It was a town where anyone that was "different" was viewed as negative. The setting was during the Great Depression.]]> 2021-08-10 15:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674295208 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674295213 Harper Lee
 Apr 28, 1926- Feb 19 2016
She was known nationally for her book "To Kill a Mockingbird"
The book won the Pulitzer prize in 1961, (1 year after the book was released in 1960) and since then has sold more than 30 million copies. The book today is still read worldwide as it gives a insite of how social classes lived and got treated during the 1930's]]> 2021-08-10 15:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674295213 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674295247 Maycomb is a fictional city based on the authors real hometown and childhood home of Monroeville. It was a small fictional Southern town that "existed" in the 1930s. It is a pretty sad because this was during the Great Depression Era.]]> 2021-08-10 15:57:31 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674295247 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674295927 Harper Lee was an American Novelist and she died in 2016. She was born in Monroeville, Alabama. She graduated in the University of Alabama. It's believed she was inspired to write To Kill a Mockingbird by her own life experience. ]]> 2021-08-10 15:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674295927 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674296033 So much people lost their jobs and weren't able to support their family anyone which caused them to go into poverty. Many died from starvation because food was very rare. Even farmers were able to plant crops or anything. "During the depression, people kept their money to themselves and did not spend much on the agriculturalists’ products. If nobody bought the food, the farmers could not get any money. Therefore, the amount of money received by the farmers deteriorated"(https://literatureessaysamples.com/the-great-depression-in-to-kill-a-mockingbird/). During the great depression things were very hard for everyone.

]]> 2021-08-10 15:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674296033 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674296457 During 1930-1940 the south got hit really hard by the great depression. Alabama suffered through the depression and had very very low work rates and they were posting lower unemployment rates than any other southern state.
According to Encyclopedia.com "The onset of the Depression merely confirmed the South's poverty. The collapse of world commodity prices and foreign markets devastated cotton and tobacco farmers." This represents that because of the great depression the south was in ruins from the economical aspect.]]> 2021-08-10 15:58:30 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674296457 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674297030 https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-and-education-magazines/supreme-court-1934-1938 During the Great Depression, Crime increased by a lot. ]]> 2021-08-10 15:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674297030 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674297244 Harper Lee was a woman that had a very long life of 89 years of age before death and how she was invested in learning and in education a lot. Harper Lee was a well known and one of the most well known writers in the world so mostly ¨ To Kill A Mockingbird¨ and ¨ Go set a watchman. Also she was able to make her life's presence into her own fictional book which was To KIll A Mockingbird and was able to transition the place that she had lived all of her very long life into her world famous book which made a reason for why she was such a great writer. Also she knows how to properly introduce all of the characters in the book in a unique way which was a very good way.

]]> 2021-08-10 15:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674297244 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674297347 The Great Depression hit the rural south hardest, where to kill a mockingbird is set.  Many natural disaster took place in the 1920s, but the great depression just made these things worse. To Kill A Mockingbird took place in the 1930s, which isn't that far from when the natural disasters took place. ]]> 2021-08-10 15:59:19 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674297347 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674298449 In "The South" around the time of 1929 to 1932. The people in the south were struggling because of The Great Depression. The south go hit the hardest it was the poorest area in the whole united states of america. People even sold there cars the did anything to get some money out of this hard time. It was not looking good for or in the south. The Great Depression lasted 3 years.which might not seem like a long time but when it is many effecting you, I can seem like forever. ]]> 2021-08-10 16:00:17 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674298449 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674298818 During this time period the US Department of Justice System, was focused in building up justice for victims and to get punishment for the guilty. In the 1930s-1940s the system is building jails for the guilty. Also creating new penitentiary to create "housing for different security levels in the same institution." Also creating the Tax division. Also now offering money for criminals to make sure they hold the criminals accountable. 

Source: https://www.justice.gov/history/timeline/150-years-department-justice#event-1271131]]> 2021-08-10 16:00:37 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674298818 https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674312932 Harper Lee was born as Nelle Harper Lee on April 28th, 1926 and died on February 19th, 2016. Her first novel "to kill a mockingbird" won many different rewards. And just a year before her death, she published her second novel, "Go set a watchman," where it portrays the later lives of the finch family. ]]> 2021-08-10 16:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/martina_brissett/r7ecxxq4081y8gyr/wish/1674312932