Essay Comparing Charesteers in to Kill a Mockingbird

Fate Bussey

4th period 9th Gifted LA

Dr. Custar

2 December 2015

Annotated Bibliography

Tuck, Steven. "Civil Rights Movement." New Georgia Encyclopedia. Oxford University, n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2015.

Tuck gives an in-depth view of the struggle for racial equality in Georgia, specifically. it takes a look at major events of the movement in its early days, such as the founding of groups like the KKK and the NAACP. However, more focus is placed on the post-World-War Two civil rights movement. He describes how the African-American community took advantage of the bad publicity Hitler had given racism, and how black voting power within the state increased dramatically afterwards. He mentions the efforts made to prevent the racist governor Eugene Talmadge from keeping office. Later on, Tuck talks about various mass-protests of the 1960’s, such as the Albany movement, before finally touching on lives of blacks not in major cities, and the unbelievable violence they faced there. Counties like "Terrible" Terrell and "Bad" Baker in southwest Georgia were examples of horrible police brutality. Tuck finishes up by summarizing racial tensions in the 1970’s and onward, making for a complete review of the civil rights movement in Georgia.

Baldwin, Davarian L. "The Civil Rights Movement." The Civil Rights Movement. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, n.d. Web. 07 Dec. 2015.

Baldwin’s paper talks about advances in racial equality around the time of World War 2. He starts out by saying the war was actually quite beneficial to blacks in the country. This is because the government programs that were established during the war were not segregated, and through this, the federal government was spending more on African Americans than it ever had before. But that would not be the last thing the federal government would do, because in 1941, FDR created the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) under pressure from activists to desegregate defense industries. Finally, Baldwin moves on to the creation of the NNC and MOWM, and how they worked with labor unions to create racial equality in the workplace. In Summary, the article is about the economic equality gained during WW2, as opposed to political freedoms and equality.

DeMarco, Michael. "States' Rights." States' Rights. The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2015.

In essence, State’s Rights is a political philosophy which demonstrates the power of the state government over the federal government. It first came to light in the 1850’s, before the American civil war. Southern states argued that they had it was the right of the state to succeed from the union if they chose to do so. After the civil war, however, it was decided that no state could succeed from the union.  Obviously, State’s Rights were a major cause of the civil war, but why they were is not always so clear. DeMarco says that it is because to many, State’s Rights were more than just a political idea, but a way of life. Because of this, it was a very personal concept that would play a part in southern life not only through the civil war, but though the entire civil rights movement.