To Kill a Mockingbird and Civil Rights - The 1940s

The following text is excerpted from The Big Read's Reader's Guide on To Kill a Mockingbird, reprinted courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Jackie Robinson signs a baseball contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1947.

President Truman ends segregation in the military and discrimination in federal hiring.

Harper Lee moves to New York City to become a writer.

This text is excerpted from The Big Read's Reader's Guide on To Kill a Mockingbird, reprinted courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts.

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