The Great Depression and Segregation in the American South

Historical Context for To Kill a Mockingbird

Segregation

Segregation

Segregation

Children of a resettled sharecropper, Scottsboro, AL

Girl pouring corn for grist mill, Alabama

Boy hauling water, Alabama

Sharecropper’s Wife and Cabin, Mississippi

Cotton hoers on the Mississippi Delta. They worked from 6am to 7pm for $1.