Informaton Resources for To Kill a Mockingbird

The following information resources were originally gathered by
Ms. Posey for research about the novel To Kill A Mockingbird. 

Kingwood College Library: American Cultural History 1930 - 1939 http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade30.html

1930 – 1939 World History (InfoPlease Almanac)

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005248.html 

Historical Context: To Kill a Mockingbird 

http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/

50 States.com“Alabama Unforgettable”
http://www.50states.com/alabama.htm

The 20th Century Ku Klux Klan in Alabama
http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/sec46qs.html

Alabama Information (Discovering Collection links) 
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/

Alabama 
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108176.html 

Ku Klux Klan Articles (Discovering Collection)
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/

Encyclopedia: 1932 in literature
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/1932-in-literature

Greatest Films of 1932
http://www.filmsite.org/1932.html 

America's economy 1929 to 1933
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/wall_street_crash.htm

Ku Klux Klan and Racial Problems
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/kkk_and_racial_problems.htm

1932 (Infoplease Almanac) 
http://www.infoplease.com/year/1932.html 

1932 Timeline Events (Discovering Collection)
http://galenet.galegroup.com/

The Pulitzer Prizes - History 
http://www.pulitzer.org/  

Harper Lee: Biography
http://galenet.galegroup.com/  and  http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/2 

Melville Dewey (site has links to 2 other sites) 
http://northside.woodfordschools.org/Media_Center/Dewey.htm

Appomattox Court House -Virginia 
http://americancivilwar.com/appo.html 

Surrender at Appomattox, 1865
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pfappomatx.htm 

Montgomery Bus Boycott
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/montbus.html

Civil Rights Timeline
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html

Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmheroes1.html  

African-American History Timeline: 1900 - 1950 
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmtimeline.html#AAH-1900 

Great Depression (Overview) 
http://galenet.galegroup.com/  

Bonus Army and Civil Unrest in the 1930s  

http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/

 

Flannery O’Connor
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/flannery.htm 

Eudora Welty
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/welty_eudora/ 

Carson McCullers
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/carsonmc.htm  


This collection of information resources for To Kill A Mockingbird was created by Ms. Pamela Posey, CHS English teacher in 2005, and was later updated my Mr. Milbury, January 2007.