Harper Lee's life and inspiration

  • Harper Lee Born in Monroeville,Alabama

    grew up in rual alabama
  • Historical background (income)

    average family income dropped 50% by 1935
  • Attack on americans

    Japan bombed Pearl harbor
  • News

    White women accused a black man for raping her an her father covered the story
  • Historical background

    In deep south slavery was abolished but southerners very much still beilieved in white "supermacy"
  • Great depression

    the stock market crashed
  • Trends

    The Swing Era
  • Historical Background (population)

    Over 60% of the population at the time was considered poor
  • the rise

    since they bombed pearl harbor there was new jobs for eveyone so we came out of depression
  • Historical background (women rights)

    women had no rights
  • Social Inequality

    1.Rich
    2. White people, Country People
    3.White Trah
    4.Blacks