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This Day In History. History Vault. Black History. White women sit in an almost empty bus in Montgomery, Alabama, during the bus boycott by African Americans that spanned December to December The letters from Harper Lee now housed at Emory University place the writer at home in Alabama during this crucial year of civil rights protests. But despite her own alienation, Lee also continues to defend her home, the South, from those in the North who would see it only as the land of the Klan.

In the final letter in the new collection, written on Nov. This was an axiomatic impossibility, according to Esquire! And, of course, as Jean Louise discovers that, Harper Lee intends for the reader to discover that. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during — These years place the events of the novel squarely within two important periods of American history: the Great Depression and the Jim Crow era.

The Great Depression is reflected in the poverty that affects all of the residents of Maycomb. Even the Finches, who are objectively better off than many of the other citizens in the area, are ultimately poor and living within the means available to them. The years depicted in the novel also fall within the much longer period of time that modern historians often refer to as the Jim Crow era.

This term describes the time from the late 19th century until the mids when black people in the United States could no longer be held in slavery, but where laws limited the social, political, and economic possibilities available to black citizens. We should remember that when Harper Lee wrote the novel in the late s, the Great Depression was over, but Jim Crow laws were still present in substantial portions of the American South.

The fictional town of Maycomb, in the fictional Maycomb County, seems intended not to represent an exact location in the real world, but a kind of small Southern town that existed in the s.

Scout describes the town as old, tired, and suffocating. In addition to being literally appropriate, these descriptions also apply to more subtle social aspects of the town. The town is burdened, Atticus might say diseased, by social prejudices in general, and racism in particular.