Sutton Middle High School Library: To Kill a Mockingbird

An exploration of the life and achievements of Harper Lee that discusses her Southern upbringing, education, family, writing of "To Kill a Mockingbird," association with Truman Capote, and personality.

Contains twelve essays that describe how racial issues are presented in major literary works such as Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," and includes plot summaries, historical background, and a discussion of overt and subtle racism.

Examines the history of the Jim Crow laws that were enacted during the late nineteenth century that limited the rights and privileges of African-American's, and describes the efforts of the civil rights movement in the mid-twentieth century to change those laws.

Describes the struggles following the Civil War to decide how to deal with the newly freed slaves, through the years of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, sharecropping, and segregation.

Presents personal accounts from African-Americans of what it was like to live in the segregated South.

Explores how the Brown v. Board of Education case impacted American culture and government and offers an overview of the history of segregation in America, the origins of Jim Crow laws, and the role of the NAACP, biographical profiles of key figures, and a variety of primary sources related to the case.

Explores the personal and historical impact of the Great Depression.

A member of the Little Rock Nine shares her memories of growing up in the South under Jim Crow.

Simeon Wright, the cousin of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American who was beaten and killed in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, reflects on what it was like to grow up in Mississippi during the 1940s and 1950s, reveals details about the night Emmett was kidnapped, and reflects on how the crime and trial affected his family and the community.

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Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.

In the mid-1950s, twenty-six-year-old Jean Louis Finch, "Scout," returns to Maycomb, Alabama, to visit her father, Atticus, but her homecoming turns bittersweet and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt as she uncovers truths about her family, friends, and town which are exposed by civil rights tensions and political turmoil.