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To Kill a Mocking Bird TKAM Allusions

TKAM Allusions 24-27

Chapter 24

Birmingham: a city in Central Alabama.

Mrs. Roosevelt: First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

People up there set 'em free: in other words: the Northerners are responsible for the fact that the slaves were freed.

tryin' to sit with 'em: in 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt attended a meeting for the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama where she defied state authorities by sitting in the center aisle, between whites and blacks, after police told her she was violating segregation laws by sitting with black people. Chapter 25

English Channel: the English Channel is the waterway that separates Great Britain from France. It is also the avenue by which much trade is carried on between Great Britain and the European continent. According to Scout, Miss Stephanie is the avenue of gossip for much of Maycomb. Chapter 26

Adolf Hitler has been after all the Jews: a reference to the Nazi anti-Jewish policy.

Adolf Hitler: (1889 - 1945) Nazi dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945.

Elmer Davis: a journalist and CBS radio commentator who went on to head the Office of War Information.

holy-roller: a member of a small religious sect that expresses devotion by shouting and moving around during worship services.

Uncle Natchell Story: Uncle Natchell (along with his sidekick, Sonny Boy) was the cartoon mascot for a fertilizer product called Natural Chilean Nitrate of Soda. Many of the advertisements for this product were in comic strip or story form. Little Chuck Little has mistaken one of these advertising "stories" for an actual current event.

Chapter 27

Bob Taylor: Robert Love Taylor, late 19th Century orator and politician.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Ad Astra Per Aspera: Latin for "to the stars through difficulties".

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Cotton Tom Heflin: J. Thomas "Cotton Tom" Heflin was an orator and Republican politician. Heflin was Secretary of State in Alabama at the beginning of the century and served in the U.S. Congress (1905-1920) and the Senate (1921-1931). Heflin's political support was drawn chiefly from rural voters and members of the Ku Klux Klan.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">dog Victrolas: a reference to the advertising symbol of RCA/Victor; a dog, known as "Nipper," looking into the horn of a gramophone or Victrola.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Ladies' Law: From the Criminal Code of Alabama, Vol. III, 1907: "Any person who enters into, or goes sufficiently near to the dwelling house of another, and, in the presence or hearing of the family of the occupant thereof, or any member of his family, or any person who, in the presence or hearing of any girl or woman, uses abusive, insulting or obscene language must, on conviction, be fined not more than two hundred dollars, and may also be imprisoned in the country jail, or sentenced to hard labor for the country for not more than six months."

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">National Recovery Act: better known as the National Recovery Administration or the NRA. The NRA was a series of programs set up to help the nation, especially the nation's business, recover from the effects of the Great Depression. If was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1935.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">nine old men: the members of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court declared the NRA unconstitutional in 1935.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">NRA - WE DO OUR PART: the motto of the National Recovery Administration (NRA)

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Syrians: people from Syria, a country at the northwest part of the Mediterranean region, south of Turkey.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">WPA: During the Great Depression, when millions of Americans were out of work, the government instituted the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and employed over eight million people.