Historical+Background+for+TKAM

**Timeline: Racism**

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 * Pre-US: colonies change the face of racism
 * Revolutionary War: 1775-1783 The two faces of America appear
 * Pre-Civil War: Helping to subdue “uprisings” in Haiti and other locales; Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1853; Abolitionists
 * Civil War: 1861-1865
 * Reconstruction: 1865-1877
 * Post-Reconstruction:
 * WWI: 1914-1918 African Americans experience Europe
 * Great Depression: 1929-1940 TKAM takes place
 * WWII: 1939-1945
 * Civil Rights Movement: 1955-1968
 * TKAM published in 1960
 * Invisibility in our culture

Big Ideas in TKAM
Injustice/Discrimination Different types of courage Different perspectives/viewpoints

Banned Books:
Language: some swearing & the n-words Themes: institutional racism, inter-racial relations Plot: rape Characters & Relationships: inter-rational relationships, African American characters flat