Introduction to To Kill a Mockingbird Historical Timeline

Introduction to To Kill a Mockingbird Historical Timeline

January 1, 1863 • Pres. Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation (says that all slaves are free)

December 6, 1865 • 13 th Amendment passed outlawing slavery in the U. S. Constitution

May 18, 1896 • Plessy vs. Ferguson: Legalizes racism through the “Separate But Equal Doctrine”

February 12, 1909 • NAACP established

April 28, 1926 • Harper Lee was born

October 1929 • Stock Market Crashes; beginning of The Great Depression

Summer 1931 • Beginning of The Dust Bowl • Throughout the Midwest and Plains: – High temperatures – Extreme draughts (no rain) – Poor farming practices

Fall 1939 • End of The Dust Bowl

March 4, 1933 • Inauguration of Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)

December 7, 1941 • • Bombing of Pearl Harbor Official entry of U. S. into WWII End of The Great Depression What did FDR say in his famous speech?

May 8, 1945 • V-E Day • Beginning of the end of WWII

May 17, 1954 • Brown vs. Board of Education – “Separate is NOT Equal” • 1950 s and 1960 s were the height of the Civil Rights Movement

December 1, 1955 • Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat in the white section of a Montgomery, Alabama bus

July 11, 1960 • Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is published in the U. S.

1961 • Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is awarded the Pulitzer Prize