Possible Topics

 

-          the South in the 1930s                                    - the Civil War                                                 - President Herbert Hoover

-          segregation                                                     - Jim Crow laws                                              - Dred Scott Case

-     Alabama                                                          - slavery in America                                        - southern cooking

-          Reconstruction                                               - poverty in America                                        - Ku Klux Klan

-          the New Deal                                                  - schools in the 1930s                                    - plants of Alabama

-     movies of the 1930s                                       - courtroom procedures                                  - social classes in the 1930s

-     mockingbirds                                                  - literature in the 1930s                                   -  fashion in the 1930s

-     jury system                                                     - majority rule                                                  - scapegoating

-     mental illness                                                  - Pulitzer Prize                                                - Harper Lee 

-     Scottsboro Case                                             - entertainment in the 1930s                           - rabies

-          President Franklin Roosevelt                          - sports in the 1930s                                       - stock market crash

-          Dust Bowl                                                       - Hindenburg disaster                                     - Lindbergh baby kidnapping