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Lessons of History: To Kill A Mockingbird & Social Inequality

Explore the parallels between the racism in the era of To Kill A Mockingbird and the deep South's discrimination post-Civil War. Dive into Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and learn about the Jim Crow Laws and the Scottsboro Boys. Discover the historical context and themes such as courage, good vs. evil, moral education, and social inequality.

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Lessons of History: To Kill A Mockingbird & Social Inequality

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  1. Recall Elie Wiesel’s account of the Nazis and their almost unthinkable cruelty. Do you think something like that could happen here? Guess what….it has. Not on the grand and systematic scale of the Nazis. They are certainly more efficient, but on a smaller and more haphazard scale….and more recently than you realize. With To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, we are going to revisit the era of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. This time we will be in the deep south instead of the west where the racism encountered by Crooks and Elie Wiesel is entrenched in the 1930s-some 65 years after the Civil War.

  2. To Kill A Mockingbird byHarper Lee

  3. The Great Depression The Dust Bowl Jim Crow Laws The Scottsboro Boys Trials

  4. Historical Context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgC09oMIwLc 15 min.

  5. Harper Lee is best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)—her one and only published novel. http://www.biography.com/#!/people/harper-lee-9377021 4 min.

  6. Courage • The Coexistence of Good and Evil • The Importance of Moral Education • The Existence of Social Inequality

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