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Understanding To kill a mockingbird : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historic documents, Claudia Durst Johnson

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Summary
Historical documents and commentary designed to help set the novel in the context of its time
Language
eng
Work
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Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 225 pages
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
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Understanding To kill a mockingbird : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historic documents
Title
Understanding To kill a mockingbird
Title remainder
a student casebook to issues, sources, and historic documents
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Claudia Durst Johnson
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Historical documents and commentary designed to help set the novel in the context of its time
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1938-
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Johnson, Claudia Durst
Dewey number
813/.54
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PS3562.E353
LC item number
T6338 1994
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series,
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  • Lee, Harper
  • Literature and history
  • African Americans in literature
  • Civil rights in literature
  • Lee, Harper
  • African Americans in literature
  • Civil rights in literature
  • Literature and history
  • United States
  • Lee, Harper
  • Zeithintergrund
  • Lee, Harper
  • Quelle
  • Zeithintergrund
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Understanding To kill a mockingbird : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historic documents, Claudia Durst Johnson
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 225 pages
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1035754994
Label
Understanding To kill a mockingbird : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historic documents, Claudia Durst Johnson
Link
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 225 pages
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1035754994

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