Guess what….it has. Not on the grand and systematic scale of the Nazis. They are certainly more efficient, but on a smaller and more haphazard scale….and more recently than you realize. With To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, we are going to revisit the era of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. This time we will be in the deep south instead of the west where the racism encountered by Crooks and Elie Wiesel is entrenched in the 1930s-some 65 years after the Civil War.

Do you think something like that could happen here?

Recall Elie Wiesel’s account of the Nazis and their almost unthinkable cruelty.

To KillA Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

The Great Depression

The Dust Bowl

Jim Crow Laws

The Scottsboro Boys Trials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgC09oMIwLc

Historical Context

15 min.

Harper Lee is best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)—her one and only published novel.

http://www.biography.com/#!/people/harper-lee-9377021

4 min.

Courage

The Coexistence of Good and Evil

The Importance of Moral Education

The Existence of Social Inequality