Done By: Leow Wei Sheng 2P315

*Black History

*Agenda

*Slavery

*Civil War

*Jim Crow Laws

*Civil Rights Movement

*Montgomery Bus Boycott and Scottsboro Trials

*Traits of a true Southern Belle and Southern Gentlemen

*Harper Lee

*Slavery

*Started in the 1400s

*Started in northern Mauritania in Africa

*Whites traditionally bought and owned slaves

*Rules included not allowed to carry arms

*Punishments included being crippled

*Slavery

*Slavery began in the Southern States when farmers needed slaves to help in their huge plantations

*Slavery is related to “To Kill A Mockingbird” as Atticus Finch also hires a slave to work for him

*The study of slavery helps us to understand why blacks are treated unfairly by the Whites

*Civil War

*The Southern States are: Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas

*The US president who proclaimed war against the South was Abraham Lincoln

*The Civil War was fought as the North wanted to abolish slavery in the South

*Civil War

*The war was fought from 1861-1865

*In the end the North won, and slavery was abolished in the South

*The Civil War is related to “To Kill A Mockingbird” as in both cases people were fighting for rights for the Blacks

*Jim Crow Laws

*Jim Crow is pejorative expression meaning “Africa American”

*The Jim Crow Law were laws which separate the Whites from the Blacks

*The Laws shaped a segregated culture

*The Blacks were unhappy as that meant that the Whites would have an unfair advantage over the Blacks

*Jim Crow Laws

*The Jim Crow Laws surfaced in the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”

*In the novel, the Whites sit downstairs of the courthouse while the Blacks sit at the balcony on top of the courthouse

*Civil Rights Movement

*The Civil Rights Movement began on 1 December 1955

*The Civil Rights Movement was a national movement of resistance to racial segregation

*In December 1955, the Montgomery Bus Boycott started and it ended in December 1956, this led to the US Supreme Court declaring the Alabama and Montgomery segregation laws unconstitutional

*Civil Rights Movement

*In August 1963, all the major civil rights organizations marched on Washington and it was a success; the Kennedy Administration was sincerely committed to passing the bill about outlawing segregation

*John F. Kennedy supported the movement

*In the end segregation was outlawed

*The movement is related to the novel as both show that racial discrimination could get out of control

*Montgomery Bus Boycott and

Scottsboro Trials

*Fighting for the rights of Blacks in the transport sector as the transport system was biased to the Whites

*Nine Black teenagers were accused of rape in Alabama in 1931

*Both trials are similar as both trials are about Blacks fighting for their rights

*Traits of a True Southern Belle and

Southern Gentleman

*Southern Belle: a young upper class woman

*Southern Gentleman: a polite man with respect

*A Southern Belle sews to pass her time

*Atticus is an example of a Southern Gentleman as he is righteous and polite

*Bob Ewell is an example of a non-Southern Gentleman as he is very violent and cunning

*Harper Lee

*Born on 28 April 1926

*Published “To Kill A Mockingbird” in July 1966

*The novel was the only novel she published

*Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961

*She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature in 2007

*The book was significant to her as it was the only book she published and it describes the impact of racism on the Blacks