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Audiobook- Unabridged To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary Study Question

=Life in the 1930's : Examining Primary Sources=

Read the primary source documents below. Fill in the chart for each of the documents. Remember to include on specific powerful quote from each document. Complete your work on Google Classroom. The source template is available on Google Classroom.

Race Relations in the 1930's: Discrimination at Home and Work **Mr. and Mrs. Wolford Hopkins of North Platte, Nebraska**
 * Garment Worker in Harlem**


 * A Lynching in the Heartland: Marion, Indiana, August 7, 1930 **

To Kill a Mockingbird Setting: A Portrait of a Southern Town in the 1930s


 * A Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt March 19, 1936 Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt, the first lady, to Walter Francis White, NAACP executive secretary. The NAACP wanted the president to support an anti-lynching law.**


 * Three Generations White and BlackMrs. Thomas Irvington, a white southerner raised in Florida and living in Georgia, when she was interviewed in 1939. In this excerpt she describes her relationship with her employees, who were descendants of slaves enslaved by Mrs. Iverington's ancestors.**


 * Oral History Interview with William and Josephine Clement (July 19,**
 * 1986): race relations in Atlanta in the 1930's**


 * Folklore of the South African Americans in New York interviewed in October 1938 share a humorous story about life in the South.**


 * Ku Klux Klan- information from the History Channel**


 * Amateur Night in Harlem Dorothy West describes an Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York in November 1938.**
 * Ella Fitzgerald was one of the great artists discovered at Amateur Night. Billie Holiday was also a performer at the Apollo.**


 * The Strange Story of the Man Behind "Strange Fruit" Abel Meeropol wrote this poem sung by Billie Holiday.**


 * The Scottsboro Boys Trials 1931-37 **
 * New York Times 2013 Alabama Pardons 3 'Scottsboro Boys' after 80 Years**

Scottsboro Trial Summary Video : An American Tragedy- student video

Emory University- Scottsboro Boys

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