HHS LMC list of books find "To Kill a Mockingbird" on a "Resource" list. Click here to search for a book in our library.
Research Project
("'Colored' Water Cooler in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma." Russell Lee. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. July 1939.)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Resources by topic:
(LAWS) Plessy v.Ferguson/Jim Crow Laws-Racial Inequity/Injustice in the Laws
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbZUQGPMTjk
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/plessy-v-ferguson
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/plessy_v_ferguson_(1896)
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/plessys-place-in-the-list-of-supreme-court-decisions
(ORDER) The Scottsboro Trial-Racial Inequity and Injustice in the Courts
https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/scottsboro-boys
https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/blog/scottsboro-boys-legacy-injustice
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/scottsboronine-black-youth-arrested-for-assault/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/who-were-scottsboro-nine-180977193/
https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2014/spring/scottsboro.pdf
(SOCIETY) The KKK and other race/gender/sexuality/religiously motivated hate groups
https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/hate-groups-america-record-bigotry-and-violence
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/grant-kkk/
www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/how-hate-groups-form
(ART/ CULTURE) Harper Lee-Using Various Platforms as Social Protest
https://time.com/3928162/mockingbird-civil-rights-movement/
https://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/am12.ela.rv.text.reaction/to-kill-a-mockingbird-southern-reaction-1960/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uQJ8RDYvhJuGBU2ealrv2HS4Z425dyQmbJbGGHFw-Pc/edit?usp=sharing
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/benefit-concerts-songs-good-cause-geldof-live-aid-720175/we-are-the-world-by-usa-for-africa-1985-722469/
https://www.moma.org/
Online Databases:
Facts on File: A searchable collection of history reference texts in American, Modern World, and Ancient History Online databases.
UN: hingham PW: hingham
*Gale: Search the menu for valuable resources including 12 Encyclopedia resources from Britannica and the full text of the Boston Globe from 1985 *Maintained by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners & funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Gale Virtual Reference Library -Use 23490000477766 when prompted.
E Books offered through the Hingham Public Library. Search the Literature Collection AND the History Collection. Note that some of HHS reference books can be found online here for use when you're not in the LMC like, Literature and Its Times, and the Novels for Students series (Literature) and Perspectives on Modern World History and American Decades (History).
For education specific topics: https://eric.ed.gov/
Some Suggested Websites:
Facing History This website is particularly informative if your topic is lynching. Typing lynching into the website's Search Bar will connect you with a wealth of materials, some of which have a direct connection to the novel.
The Big Read The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment. Site include's a Reader's Guide and Teacher's Guide to To Kill a Mockingbird.
The Smithsonian on Jim Crow Laws
Monroe County Heritage Museum:Locate the history of the town behind the story.
New Deal Network: Documents, features and links with primary sources from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Museum in Hyde Park, NY and beyond. Make sure you "click here for more information" after you locate a document of interest.
Library of Congress American Memory Project: African-American Odyssey: Primary sources in the Exhibits sections on Depression, New Deal and World War II.
LOC Jim Crow in America
LOC Civil Rights Webguide
American Experience: Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
Segregated schools in the 1930's.
Note: Websites vary widely. You need to critically evaluate any site you use to determine whether to include it in your research. Pay particular attention to the "authority" behind the information
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