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An average of 600 banks fail each year. 1920-1929
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The conservative Supreme Court strikes down federal child labor legislation
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The Ku Klux Klan reaches the height of its influence in America: by the end of the year it will claim 9 million members. It will decline drastically in 1925, however, after financial and moral scandals rock its leadership.
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Organized labor declines throughout the decade. The United Mine Workers Union will see its membership fall from 500,000 in 1920 to 75,000 in 1928. The American Federation of Labor would fall from 5.1 million in 1920 to 3.4 million in 1929.
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When they run into the Lynch Mob in front of the county jail also when the town turns against him because he is supporting Tom Robinson.
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Tom Robinson was wrongfully blamed for raping a women that he didn't and was blamed just because of the color of his skin
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At the Finch house, Atticus talks to Walter about farming problems.
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Farm prices have fallen 53 percent since 1929.
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Racial Prejudice Became very Common
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Scout ask Atticus if they are as Poor as the Cunninghams who are farmers while atticus is a lawyer.
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Unemployment was widespread, especially in Southern and rural communities such as the one portrayed in To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Over 13 million Americans have lost their jobs since 1929.
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Annual per-capita income is $750; for farm people, it is only $273.
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Boo leaves 2 pieces of chewing gum in the Radley’s oak tree.
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Stock market crash begins October 24.
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Investors call October 29 Black Tuesday. Losses for the month will total $16 billion, an astronomical sum in those days.
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Supreme Court rules that the monopoly U.S. Steel does not violate antitrust laws as long as competition exists, no matter how negligible.
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Atticus agrees to defend Tom Robinson
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Tom Robinson arrested
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No major legislation is passed addressing the Depression.
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The top tax rate is 91 percent. It will stay at least 88 percent until 1963, when it is lowered to 70 percent. During this time, America will experience the greatest economic boom it had ever known until that time.
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World War II starts with Hitler's invasion of Poland.
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Congress passes the Emergency Banking Bill, the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, the Farm Credit Act, the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Truth-in-Securities Act.
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The Supreme Court declares the National Recovery Administration to be unconstitutional.
