Many spots on a timeline could help a reader understand To Kill a Mockingbird, but none as beneficial as the ones ahead. To be exact, at the end of 1877 to the beginning of the civil rights movement their were laws called Jim Crow Laws that enforced racial segregation between black and white. In the midst of this segregation, Women’s rights issues started becoming a problem in America. To make this worse, on October 29,1929 the stock market crashed which started up a time known as The Great Depression. Studying history, such as Jim Crow Laws, Women’s rights issues, and The Great Depression allows us to understand the events that occured in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Jim Crow Laws, helps us as human beings in the 21st century know what terrible mistakes many people made during the 1930’s. In the article Fighting Jim Crow, it explains how southern states after the Civil War were creating strategies to keep segregation between black and white. It talks about how they would do anything to keep races segregated from passing laws on marriages to separating school children by their race. These unnecessary laws to say
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In the article Women’s rights in the 1930’s in the United States, it describes how women could become whoever they wanted to become, except many hirings were only for men during the war. With Eleanor Roosevelt playing her role during Franklin Roosevelt presidency, it showed companies that women really deserve better pay and a place in their business. In the article Jone Johnson Lewis expresses, “Employers prefered to give them to men, in the interest of men supporting their families”(Lewis 4). Again, women could have played a huge role during the war, but many companies only hired men. The companies had to do this because men had a duty to support their family. Did they ever think that maybe women could be in the same role as men in a