Originally home to many native tribes, present-day Alabama was a Spanish territory beginning in the sixteenth century until the French acquired it in the early eighteenth century. The British won the territory in 1763 until losing it in theAmerican Revolutionary War. Spain held Mobile as part ofSpanish West Florida until 1813. In December 1819, Alabama was recognized as a state. During the antebellum period, Alabama was a majorproducer of cotton and widely usedAfrican Americanslave labor. In 1861, the state seceded from the United States to become part of theConfederate States of America, with Montgomery acting as its first capital, and rejoined the Union in 1868. Following theAmerican Civil War, Alabama would suffer decades of economic hardship, in part due to agriculture and a fewcash crops being the main driver of the state's economy. Similar to other former slave states, Alabamian legislators employedJim Crow laws from the late 19th century up until the 1960s. High-profile events such as theSelma to Montgomery marches made the state a major focal point of thecivil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. (Full article...)
The plot and characters ofTo Kill a Mockingbird are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors inMonroeville, Alabama, as well as a childhood event that occurred near her hometown in 1936. The novel deals with racist attitudes and the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in theDeep South of the 1930s as depicted through the eyes of two children. (Full article...)
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