Jim Crow Laws were authorized punishments on people for socializing with members of a different nationality. General laws banned interracial marriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white races separated. These laws which took away many of the rights which had been granted to blacks started in 1877 and continued until the mid-1960s.
The name of these laws came from the song, "Jim Crow," written by Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice. Song:
"Come listen all you galls and boys,
I'm going to sing a little song,
My name is Jim Crow.
Weel about and turn about and do jis so,
Eb'ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow."
Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice first performed this song dressed in rags with black makeup …show more content…
Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. The youngest of four children, Lee followed her attorney father into law. She attended the University of Alabama law school and spent the 1950's working for Eastern Airlines and writing short stories. On the suggestion of her editor, Lee developed one of her short stories into her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, published in 1960.
This Pulitzer prize winning book takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, a sleepy small town similar in many ways to Harper Lee’s own birthplace.To Kill a Mockingbird was intended to portray the author’s childhood experiences, not her own childhood home but rather a nonspecific Southern town. Lee loosely represents herself as a young, stubborn tomboy Scout, living in the Great depression with racism and prejudice taking place. Among Lee’s childhood friends was the future novelist and essayist Truman Capote, from whom she drew inspiration for the character Dill. Her own father was an attorney like Atticus ( Scout’s father ). The people in her life were a huge part of the inspiration for this amazing novel. By placing her novel in the 1930s, Lee provided her readers with a historical background for current events of the time, and in doing so, she exposed the deeply rooted history of the civil rights struggle in the
The name of these laws came from the song, "Jim Crow," written by Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice. Song:
"Come listen all you galls and boys,
I'm going to sing a little song,
My name is Jim Crow.
Weel about and turn about and do jis so,
Eb'ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow."
Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice first performed this song dressed in rags with black makeup …show more content…
Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. The youngest of four children, Lee followed her attorney father into law. She attended the University of Alabama law school and spent the 1950's working for Eastern Airlines and writing short stories. On the suggestion of her editor, Lee developed one of her short stories into her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, published in 1960.
This Pulitzer prize winning book takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, a sleepy small town similar in many ways to Harper Lee’s own birthplace.To Kill a Mockingbird was intended to portray the author’s childhood experiences, not her own childhood home but rather a nonspecific Southern town. Lee loosely represents herself as a young, stubborn tomboy Scout, living in the Great depression with racism and prejudice taking place. Among Lee’s childhood friends was the future novelist and essayist Truman Capote, from whom she drew inspiration for the character Dill. Her own father was an attorney like Atticus ( Scout’s father ). The people in her life were a huge part of the inspiration for this amazing novel. By placing her novel in the 1930s, Lee provided her readers with a historical background for current events of the time, and in doing so, she exposed the deeply rooted history of the civil rights struggle in the