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"Will be useful to teachers and student researchers, as both journey toward a richer understanding of Lee's novel and the complex ideas society is still exploring."
VOYA on
Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird (print)
This rich source of historical documents, collateral
readings, and commentary will help students to study the novel in
the context of its time. The source materials are designed to work
with the novel to bring past and present into sharper focus and
to place in sharp relief the issues of race, heroism, censorship,
and the realities and stereotypes of southern life. Documents
and readings include court testimony from the notorious Scottsboro
Case of the 1930s, news stories and editorials on civil rights
activities in Alabama in the 1950s, and memoirs, interviews,
and other readings that promote interdisciplinary study of the novel.
Study questions, project ideas, and bibliographies provide additional
sources for examining the issues raised by the novel.
This unparalleled online sourcebook provides
the user access to:
- Photo
tour of the Civil Rights Movement
- Audio
of Chief Justice Earl Warren overruling the doctrine of "separate
but equal" (Brown vs. Board of Education)
- Poetry
on the bombing of a church in Birmingham, 1963
- Biographies
and photos of major figures in the Scottsboro case
- Additional
news articles
- Glossary
of cultural references and historical idioms from To Kill A
Mockingbird
- Web-based
study questions
- Contextual
timelines
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