To Kill a Mockingbirdhistory project

Daisy Garcia

Part 1: Small-town Alabama.

Observations

• Lonely house • Old house• Broken stairs • Abandoned• Chairs

Connection• The house was low, was

once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate- gray yard around it”

The churchyard was brick-hard clay, as was the cemetery beside it. If someone died during a dry spell, the body was covered with chunks of ice until rain softened the earth. A few graves in the cemetery were marked with crumbling tombstones; Lightning rods guarding some graves denoted dead who rested uneasily; stumps of burned-out candles stood at the heads of infant graves. It was a happy cemetery.

Part 2: African-American Experience..

Negro children standing in front of half mile concrete wall, Detroit, Michigan. This wall was built in August 1941, to separate the Negro section from a white housing development going up on the other side

observations

Part 3: The Jim Crow Era

observations

• Their different• Their seperated• Their not together

• Walter Cunningham’s face told everybody in the first grade he had hookworms. His absence of shoes told us how he got them. People caught hookworms going barefooted in barnyards and hog wallows. If Walter had owned any shoes he would have worn them the first day of school and then discarded them until mid-winter.

Part 4: The Great Depression

• Washington Division; 1944.• Migrant cotton picker's

child who lives in a tent in the government camp

observations

• Happy• Dirty clothes• Over sized clothes