April 2

My primary source for this research essay is the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I am using this source to talk about its influence on the civil rights movement. Although it is set in the later years of the great depression and isn't about the movement itself, it was published in 1960 towards the beginning of the movment. In the U.S. today we have an African American president for the first time. That would never have happened if it hadn't been for the civil rights movement; the rallies, the boycotts, the books. I believe that racism and segregation are wrong and I believe that in To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee agrees.