To Kill a Mockingbird – RESEARCH

WEBSITES for RESEARCH

For all topics –

Gale Biography: http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1?userGroupName=va_s_007_0162

Gale United States History: http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/?userGroupName=va_s_007_0162

Research ALL of the following topics:

1.     The life of Harper Lee

·   http://www.biography.com/articles/Harper-Lee-9377021

·   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee

·   http://www.neabigread.org/books/mockingbird/mockingbird04.php

·   http://www.teenreads.com/authors/harper-lee

2.     The effect of the Great Depression on the South / the Great Depression in general

·   http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/great_depression_1930s/index.html

·   http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/04/01/us/1194838896462/the-new-hard-times.html?ref=greatdepression1930s (You’ll need headphones to hear the narration)

·   http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3540

·   http://mgagnon.myweb.uga.edu/students/3090/04SP3090-Briggs.htm

·   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United_States

3.     The Scottsboro Trial

·   http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_HRrep.html

·   http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_quote.html

·   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/index.html

4.     Jim Crow laws in the South

·   http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm

·   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

·   http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_narratives.html

Choose ONE of the following (or do more for extra credit):

5.     The Ku Klux Klan

·   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/flood-klan/

·   http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_kkk.html

·   http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/ku-klux-klan

·   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan

·   http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/kkk/history.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=4&item=kkk

·   http://www.history.com/topics/ku-klux-klan

·   http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/kkk.htm

6.     Emmett Till

·   http://www.heroism.org/class/1950/heroes/till.htm

·   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till

·   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/peopleevents/e_impact.html

·   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/sfeature/sf_relations.html

7.     Lynching & the anti-lynching movement in the South

·   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/peopleevents/e_lynch.html

·   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/sfeature/sf_lynching.html

·   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States

·   http://withoutsanctuary.org/main.html (you will need headphones to watch the movie)

·   http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lynching/lynching.htm

·   http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/reflector/historicalb.html (an African-American newspaper from Charlottesville, VA)