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| Genre/Form: | Sources |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Harper Lee; Harper Lee; Harper Lee |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Claudia Durst Johnson |
| ISBN: | 0313291934 9780313291937 |
| OCLC Number: | 29952073 |
| Description: | xvi, 225 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Literary Analysis: Unifying Elements of To Kill a Mockingbird -- Historical Context: The Scottsboro Trials -- From the Testimony of Victoria Price and Dr. R.R. Bridges in the Scottsboro Trial, Spring of 1931 -- From Judge James E. Horton's Address from the Bench in the Scottsboro Case, March 27, 1933 -- From the Testimony of Victoria Price and Dr. R.R. Bridges, April 3, 1933, as Reported in the New York Times -- From The Testimony of Ruby Bates in the Trial of Haywood Patterson, April 7, 1933 -- From the Testimony of Lester Carter in the Trial of Charley Weems, Apri 17, 1933 -- From the Opinion of Judge James E. Horton, June 22, 1933 -- From the Testimony of Victoria Price and the Deposition of Ruby Bates in the Retrial of Clarence Norris, December 2, 1933 -- From the Supreme Court Decision Rendered in Spring of 1935 -- Historical Context: The Civil RIghts Movement -- From the Supreme Court Decisions Known as Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas -- "Boycott Leader's Home Blasted" -- "UA Tells Negro She May Enroll" -- "Fourth Cross Burned at Tuscaloosa" -- "Negro Student Taking Room Denial to Court" -- "Prominent Negro Home Blasted" -- "Negro Says Well-Wishers High Spot of Day at UA" -- "1000 in Demonstration at U of A, Witnesses Call It Negro Protest" -- Negro Student Barred from UA Campus to Halt Rioting" -- "Rioting at Capstone" -- "Negro Detemined to Attend Classes" -- "Carmichael Denies Conspiracy Charge" -- "Return-Lucy Petitions Draw 500 Names at UA" -- "Jury Indicts 115 in Capitol Bus Boycott" -- "Mass Meeting Speakers Urge Continued Protest" -- "U of A Pulls Down Curtain of Secrecy" -- "UA Faculty Continues Probe of Disorders" -- "Alabama Not Alone in Tradition Fight" -- Realities and Stereotypes -- From Thomas Nelson Page, Gordon Keith (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903) -- Mr. Bonner's Response to Integration -- Interview: A Perspective on the 1930s -- From Helen Ekin Starrett, The Charm of Fine Manners (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1920) -- From Vernon Johnson, "A Memoir: Growing Up Poor and White in the South" (Unpublished Memoir, 1993) -- From Shields McIllwaine, The Southern Poor-White from Lubberland to Tobacco Road (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1939) -- From Erskine Caldwell, God's Little Acre (New York: Grossett and Dunlap, 1932) -- From William Faulkner, "Wash" in The Portabl Faulkner (New York: Viking Press, 1946) -- Description of Victoria Price from Dan T. Carter, Scottsboro (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979) -- From Virginia Foster Durr, Outside the Magic Circle (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985) -- Interview: Growing Up Black in the 1930s in McCulley's Quarters, Alabama -- From Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films (New York: Continuum, 1989) -- From Thomas Dixon, The Flaming Sword (Atlanta: Monarch Publishing, 1939) -- From Virginia Foster Durr, Outside the Magic Circle (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985) -- From Paul Boyer and Stephen Nussbaum, Salem Possessed (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974) -- From Thomas S. Szasz, "Power and Psychiatry," in Deviance in American Life (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1989) -- The Issue of Heroism -- Monroe Freedman "Atticus Finch, Esq., R.I.P.: A Gentleman But No Model for Lawyers -- R. Mason Barge: "Fictional Characters, Fictional Ethics" -- The Issue of Censorship -- "Mr. Bumble and the Mockingbird" -- "Some Novels' Fate Remains Uncertain" -- "College Student Defends Morality of Banned Book" -- "Hiding 'Seamy Side' Is False Protection" -- "Two Books Banned-No Doubt" -- "Who Killed the Mockingbird?" -- Letters and Editor's Comments from "Forum," Richmond News-Leader -- Letters and Comments from Richmond News-Leader -- Letter from "Voice of the People", Richmond Times-Dispatch -- Letters and Editor's Comments from "Forum," Richmond News-Leader. |
| Series Title: | Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series. |
| Responsibility: | Claudia Durst Johnson. |
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