Ms. Beichner's To Kill A Mockingbird newspaper project
These are some recommended sites to use for locating the information you need:
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/century/1930s.htm Highlights from the 1930's
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/exinterv.html The Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s recorded more than 10,000 life stories of men and woman from a variety of occupations and ethnic groups. This site is a sampling of these interviews.
http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/girl.html Interview: Growing Up White in the South in the 1930s
The Great Depression and the New Deal http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/intro01.html
Read about the Federal Works Progress Administration started by the federal government during the Depression.
Pictures from the American Memory Collection: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/
Pictures from the American Memory Collection: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/
SWHS databases: teachingbooks.net, General OneFile, World Book Advanced
