The following are some links to the civil rights topic that we have been discussing in class. Please refer to them in order to write your paper. remember at the core of the paper is still To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The book takes place in the 30's, but was written in the late 1950's and published in 1960.
Your essay should talk about real sources:
I Have a Dream- MLK
House Negro/Field Negro- Malcolm X
By any means necessary- Malcolm X
Mississippi Goddamn- Nina Simone
Strange Fruit- Billie Holiday
Emmett Till
Civil Rights movement (this takes you to Wikipedia; not always the best source, but has good information here and takes you to interesting sites if you want to dig deeper).
And media sources:
Gone with the wind
Mississippi Burning
To Kill A Mockingbird
Remember to think of the book's structure in terms of the dualities- and how that is echoed in so many other relationships both in the book and in the reality of black/white relationship in the South before and since the American civil war.
