Literary analysis: unifying elements of To kill a mockingbird
Historical context: the Scottsboro trials. From the testimony of Victoria Price and Dr. R.R. Bridges in the Scottsboro trial, spring of 1931 ; From Judge James E. Horton's address from the bench in the Scottsboro case, March 27, 1933 ; From the testimony of Victoria Price and Dr. R.R. Bridges, April 3, 1933, as reported in the New York Times ; From The testimony of Ruby Bates in the trial of Haywood Patterson, April 7, 1933 ; From the testimony of Lester Carter in the trial of Charley Weems, April 17, 1933 ; From the opinion of Judge James E. Horton, June 22, 1933 ; From the testimony of Victoria Price and the deposition of Ruby Bates in the retrial of Clarence Norris, December 2, 1933 ; From the Supreme Court decision rendered in spring of 1935
Historical context: the Civil Rights Movement. From the Supreme Court decisions known as Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas ; "Boycott leader's home Is blasted" ; "UA tells Negro she may enroll" ; "Fourth cross burned at Tuscaloosa" ; "Negro student taking room denial to court" ; "Prominent Negro home blasted" ; "Negro says well-wishers high spot of day at UA" ; "1000 in demonstration at U of A, witnesses call it Negro protest" ; Negro student barred from UA campus to halt rioting" ; "Rioting at the Capstone" ; "Negro determined to attend classes" ; "Carmichael denies conspiracy charges" ; "Return-Lucy petitions draw 500 names at UA" ; "Jury indicts 115 in Capitol bus boycott" ; "Mass meeting speakers urge continued protest" ; "U of A pulls down curtain of secrecy" ; "UA faculty continues probe of disorders" ; "Alabama not alone in tradition fight"
Realities and stereotypes. From Thomas Nelson Page, Gordon Keith (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903) ; Mr. Bonner's response to integration ; Interview: a perspective on the 1930s ; From Helen Ekin Starrett, The charm of fine manners (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1920) ; From Vernon Johnson, "A memoir: growing up poor and white in the South" (Unpublished memoir, 1993) ; From Shields McIlwaine, The Southern poor-white from Lubberland to Tobacco Road (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1939) ; From Erskine Caldwell, God's little acre (New York: Grossett and Dunlap, 1932) ; From William Faulkner, "Wash" in The portable Faulkner (New York: Viking Press, 1946) ; Description of Victoria Price from Dan T. Carter, Scottsboro (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979) ; From Virginia Foster Durr, Outside the magic circle (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985) ; Interview: growing up black in the 1930s in McCulley's Quarters, Alabama ; From Donald Bogle, Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies and bucks: an interpretive history of Blacks in American films (New York: Continuum, 1989) ; From Thomas Dixon, The flaming sword (Atlanta: Monarch Publishing, 1939) ; From Virginia Foster Durr, Outside the magic circle (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985) ; From Paul Boyer and Stephen Nussbaum, Salem possessed (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974) ; From Thomas S. Szasz, "Power and psychiatry," in Deviance in American life (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1989)
The issue of heroism. Monroe Freedman "Atticus Finch, Esq., R.I.P.: a gentleman but no model for lawyers ; R. Mason Barge: "Fictional characters, fictional ethics"
The issue of censorship. "Mr. Bumble and the Mockingbird" ; "Some novels' fate remains uncertain" ; "College student defends morality of banned book" ; "Hiding 'seamy side' is false protection" ; "Two books banned- no doubt" ; "Who killed the mockingbird?" ; Letters and editor's comments from "Forum," Richmond News-Leader ; Letters from "Forum," Richmond News-Leader ; Letters and comments from Richmond News-Leader ; Letter from "Voice of the people," Richmond Times-Dispatch ; Letters and editor's comments from "Forum," Richmond News-Leader.