Welcome to To Kill a Mockingbird presentation.

Dirt farming in rural Alabama was grueling and showed little profit. The Cunninghams were this type of subsistence farmer.

President Roosevelt - FDR

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

Child in a “Hooverville”

A Hooverville is a shanty town created by homeless unemployed people.

“Colored only” water fountain

An example of segregation in the Jim Crow South.

White Trade Only sign

Another example of segregation in the Jim Crow South.

Going to Town on a Saturday Afternoon

Like the trial week in To Kill a Mockingbird, Saturdays were a time for rural Southerners, black and white, to dress up, see their friends and socialize.

Sharecropper’s son

This is actually a photo of a young boy in Chesnee, SC, but little Walter Cunningham would have looked much the same.

The Great Depression – a shared hardship

A Southern lawyer in his office

This is a lynching, a common form of punishment for African Americans who offended the white community.

Works Cited

www.memory.loc.gov www.musarium.com/withoutsanctuary/