Grade 9 Research Topic Resources:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Places to look for information:
• Books on reserve book cart – This is where you should start! We have
dozens of great books that will help you your research started.
• Some Ebooks: (In school: “Ebooks 2010-2011” in 7. Media network folder; From
home: “Research Databases” on your Edline home page)
o Publisher: Infobase:
 Atlas of African-American History
 Education and Learning in America
 Fashions of a Decade: The 1930s
o Publisher: Gale Virtual Reference Library:
 African American Almanac
 UXL American Decades
 Working Americans
o Publisher: Salem Literature
 Critical Insights: To Kill a Mockingbird
• Some Research Databases: (In school: “Research Databases” in 7. Media network
folder; From home: “Research Databases” on your Edline home page)
o Oxford African American Studies Center
o Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition
o History Reference Center
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U.S. History > Prosperity, Depression & the New Deal (1920-1940)
o SIRS Decades
 The 1930s
o Student Resources in Context
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Topics > The 1930s
o U.S. History in Context
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Topics > The 1930s
o World History: Modern Era
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Eras > The Great Depression
• Some web pages and online articles:
o The Roles of Southern Women, Black and White, in Society
o The Scottsboro Boys Trials
o Guided Readings: 1930s
o Interview: Growing Up White in the South in the 1930s
o To Kill a Mockingbird Historical Background
o The Big Read: To Kill a Mockingbird
o To Kill a Mockingbird Research Pathfinder (Walter Johnson HS)
o America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs
from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
o Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination: Documentation
by Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information
Photographers
o WPA Life Histories from Alabama
o America in the 1930s (from American Studies at the University of
Virginia)
o The Great Depression - Student Resources (Library of Congress)
o “Light, More Light” – Political cartoons by Herblock from the 1930s
o Celebrate the Century: Search the Web for U.S. History of the 1930s
using U.S. Postal Stamps
o Harper’s Weekly cover illustration of a “Southern Belle”
o National Assessment of Adult Literacy: 120 Years of Literacy
o The Great Depression: Primary source information, images, and
sound files from the 1930s
o Digital History: Guided Readings: 1930s
o American Cultural History, 1930-1939 (Lonestar College, Kingwood,
TX)
o 1930s Timeline (About.com)
o Decade: 1930-1939 (University of Missouri)
o 1930s - Women of the Century
o Pictures of Hats & Hairstyles 1930-1939 in Costume History
o Decades: 1930s (Pleasant Valley High School, Chico, CA)
o Alabama Through the Ages
o 1930s Foods (Food Timeline)
o 1930s Farm Life
o Grovey v. Townsend, U.S. Supreme Court, 1935
o What Was Jim Crow? (Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University)