Check out these pages for some good information related to lives of the characters in the novel.
"Jim Crow" segregationDomestic workers: then and now
Women's rights and roles in the 1930s
Lynching and the Ku Klux Klan
Race and Racism in the Northern US
Education and Childhood in the 1930s
The Scottsboro Boys Trials
African American religion in the South
The Great Depression and the New Deal
The Civil Rights Movement around the time when TKAM was first published
Rural / small town Southern life in the early 20th century
Popular Culture in the 1930s
The Life and Times of Harper Lee
Fight for Civil Rights from the Civil War to the 1930s
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