TKAMDAVIS

[|Robert Dudley Poem "Booker T. and W.E.B"]TKAM Background

Click on the links below to go to websites that explain the areas of research in which we will be focusing

[|Harper Lee Wikipedia Entry] This is a great place to start for basic information about Harper Lee [|Harper Lee Biography/Criticism of TKAM] This is a link to an e-book that discusses Harper Lee's background and her creation of the book The following slide show provides background for the novel.media type="custom" key="3277492" [|Scottsboro Trials] This is a very thorough source for the Scottsboro Trials. It provides information about not only the case, but the boys as well. The slide show below gives a visual background of the case in reference to the novel.media type="custom" key="3277420"[|The Great Depression] This is a very in-depth website that not ponly gives an overview and talks about other important historical occurences of the time, but also provides pictures and art. Other areas of research within The Great Depression: [|The Dust Bowl] This website give a scientific explanation for what caused The Dust Bowl. [|Dust Bowl Film] Click on the above link to see a real film of what The Dust Bowl actually looked like. Real Film Clip from the time period!!! [|Segregation--Jim Crow Laws] [|Booker T. Washington and W.E. B. DuBois] [|From W.E. B. Dubois THE SOULS OF BLACKFOLK] :This is a a critique of Booker T. Washington and others.

Watch the first 7 minutes of a hour hour documentary about the death of Emmett Till. media type="youtube" key="BL1vMFwZEus" height="344" width="425"

[|Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.]