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Exploring the 1930's
To Kill a Mockingbird

Picture Sources: 
PBS: The American Experience
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/timeline/index_3.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/timeline/index_2.html
Voices from the Thirties  http://rs6.loc.gov/wpaintro/intro01.html


 

General Areas of Interest pertaining to the 1930's
Women in the 1930's Economic Concerns Education Science/Technology
  • Fashion

  • Careers

  • Family Roles

  • Traditional "Southern Belles"

  • Women's Rights

  • Margaret Mitchell, Amelia Earhart, Jane Addams, Pearl S Buck, Dorothea Lange

  • Stock Market Crash

  • Great Depression

  • The New Deal

  • WPA & CCC

  • Statistics: wages & salaries, home costs, food, cars, population

  • Federal Writers Project

  • National Youth Administration

  • Reformer John Dewey

  • Levels of Education

  • Literacy

  • Colleges, Trade Schools

  • Golden Gate Bridge & Boulder Dam

  • World's Fair (1933)

  • Television & radio

  • Sigmund Freud

  • T.A. Edison

  • Thomas Hunt Morgan

Art & Entertainment People of the 1930's Events International Relations
  • Movies & Hollywood Stars
  • Dance
  • Radio Programs
  • Popular Music
  • Shirley Temple, Charlie Chaplin, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller,  Judy Garland
  • Harper Lee
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Joe Louis
  • Langston Hughes
  • Jesse Owens
  • Amelia Earhart
  • Pearl S Buck
  • John Steinbeck
  • The Great Depression
  • Stock Market Crash
  • The New Deal
  • Lindberg Kidnapping
  • Scottsboro Trail
  • Integration
  • Women's Suffrage
  • 21st Amendment
  • Hitler
  • Winston Churchill
  • League of Nations

African-American Life

   
  • Jim Crow laws, voting rights, education, occupations
  • Discrimination
  • Housing & neighborhoods
  • W.B. Dubois, George Washington Carver, Booker T Washington, Marian Anderson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Bessie Smith


Famous American Trials 
Picture Credit:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

 

 

   
WOMEN OF THE 1930s


Distinguished Women of Past and Present
American Women's History: A Research GuideEducation
American Women's History: A Research Guide Women's Rights
History of Fashion: 1930's - 1940's
American Women's History: A Research Guide
Women In The Workplace
Women in American History
Images of Advertizing in the 1930s
Fashions: 1930's

Picture Credit:  http://www.costumes.org/HISTORY/100pages/1930links.htm

   

ECONOMICS IN THE 1930s   

Modern world history: The Wall Street Crash
Voices from the Dust Bowl
1920s & 1930s: The Depression & The New Deal
I remember . . ." (Reminiscences of the Great Depression)
Then and Now: Prices Compare Prices During the Great Depression to Prices Today
The Great Depression and the New Deal
The Great Depression and WWII, 1929-1945
Federal Writers Project 
More Federal Writers Project
New Deal/WPA Projects
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
National Youth Administration

Picture Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps

   
EDUCATION

The Center for Dewey Studies
John Dewey (1859-1952)
John Dewey
American Cultural History
Picture This
Separate is Not Equal
Schools in the 1930s

EVENTS
 
 The Wall Street Crash
Voices from the Dust Bowl
1920s & 1930s: The Depression & The New Deal
The Great Depression and WWII, 1929-1945
Charles Lindberg
Scottsboro Trials
Women's Suffrage
21st Amendment
   
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1933 Worlds Fair
World's Fair and Exposition Collectibles
Images From A Century of Progress
The Nobel Foundation
Official Web Site of the Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate Bridge
Smithsonian: Transportation History

Picture Credit: http://www.futurliner.com/fair.htm

   
ART & ENTERTAINMENT


American Cultural History 1930-1939

The Harlem Renaissance
The Authentic History Center
Greatest Films of the 1930's
America in the 1930's
Art and Entertainment

 

Picture Credit:  http://www.filmsite.org/30sintro.html

 
   
PEOPLE OF THE 1930s

Margaret Mitchell house & Museum
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Home Page
Thomas Edison American Inventor 1847 –1931
The Wizard of Menlo Park     
Harper Lee                                      
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Pablo Ruiz Y Picasso (1881-1973)
The World of Gertrude Stein
Pearl S. Buck
Amelia Earhart - A Timeline
Amelia Earhart 1897-1937
Franklin D. Roosevelt:Thirty-Second President 1933-1945
Joe Louis

Joe Louis' Biggest Knockout
John Dewey (1859-1952)
Herbert Hoover Thirty-First President 1929-1933
Herbert Clark Hoover
The Lindbergh Case -The Crime of the Century
The Kidnapping
Jesse Owens

 

Picture Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

 

Picture Credit:  http://www.jesseowens.com/

   
International Relationships

The Covenant Of The League Of Nations
League of Nations Home Page
Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations
The History Place - The Rise of Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill Homepage
Sir Winston Churchill Biography
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
Stalin Biographical Chronicle
Adolf Hitler Biography
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)


 

 

 

Picture Credit:  http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIFE

"Jim Crow" Laws
Jim Crow History
The African-American Mosaic
National Civil Rights Museum
Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
The Scottsboro Trial
Growing Up Black in the 1930's
Black History Biographies

 

Picture Credit: http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/art-72268