To Kill a Mockingbird
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Author Related Websites Biography.com Biography.com shares the life and times of Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the best seller To Kill a Mockingbird, her one and only novel. Encyclopedia of Alabama (Harper Lee s entry) The Big Read The Encyclopedia of Alabama is a free, online resource on Alabama history, culture, geography, and natural environment. This site offers articles on Alabama's famous people, historic events, sports, art, literature, industry, government, plant and animal life, agriculture, recreation, and so much more. The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to revitalize the role of reading in American culture by exposing citizens to great works of literature and encouraging them to read for pleasure and enrichment.
Jim Crow Related Websites Nps.gov Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic site Jim Crow Laws. This page lists a sampling of Jim Crow Laws from various states. JimCrowHistory.org PBS.org (The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow) jimcrowhistory.org is an educator's site that presents teachers with new historical resources and teaching ideas on one of the most shameful periods in American history, an era of segregation, violence, and disfranchisement of African Americans that tore at the very fabric of the nation. This is a companion website to a landmark four-part series entitled THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW which explores segregation from the end of the civil war to the dawn of the modern civil rights movement.
Scottsboro Trials Related Websites Famous American Trials This site was created by Douglas Linder, faculty member at the law school at UMKC (University of Missouri at Kansas City). Primary source information is included with the historical information about the trial. PBS.org (Scottsboro: An American Tragedy) Encyclopedia of Alabama (Scottsboro Trials entry) "Online companion to the acclaimed PBS documentary (of the same title) about the controversial 1931 Scottsboro, Alabama, court trial of nine young black men. Features a timeline of the event and subsequent trials (including Supreme Court decisions), a map, information on related people and events, documents and reactions taken from the time of the incident, a bibliography, links, and a teacher's guide. The Encyclopedia of Alabama is a free, online resource on Alabama history, culture, geography, and natural environment. This site offers articles on Alabama's famous people, historic events, sports, art, literature, industry, government, plant and animal life, agriculture, recreation, and so much more.
1930s Related Website The 1930s History.com History.com this site offers a collection of articles and videos about the time period. You can search by people, events, or themes.
Civil Rights Movement Websites Encyclopedia of Alabama (16 th Street Church Bombing, Rosa Parks) Smithsonian Museum of National History Separate is Not Equal Historynet.com The Encyclopedia of Alabama is a free, online resource on Alabama history, culture, geography, and natural environment. This site offers articles on Alabama's famous people, historic events, sports, art, literature, industry, government, plant and animal life, agriculture, recreation, and so much more. This website focuses on the Brown vs. Board of Education case that stripped away constitutional sanctions for segregation by race, and made equal opportunity in education the law of the land. The HistoryNet.com is brought to you by the Weider History Group, the world's largest publisher of history magazines.