To kill a mockingbird context

Context, can be important as we saw some posts below.
So, if we are examining a novel, is important for us to know wich is the context in wich this story was created.

Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. Among Lee’s childhood friends was the future novelist and essayist Truman Capote, wich was his inspiration for many aspects in the novel TKM and others. (Was an inspiration for him in general). These personal details notwithstanding, Lee maintains that To Kill a Mockingbird was intended to portray not her own childhood home but rather a nonspecific Southern town. “People are people anywhere you put them,” she declared in a 1961 interview.

Yet the book’s setting and characters are not the only aspects of the story shaped by events that occurred during Lee’s childhood. In 1931, when Lee was five, about nine "negroes" were accused for raping a girl, and about the half of them was found guilty even without prooving them guilty, it was  suspected that the women who had accused the men was lying.


Lee began TKM in the mid 1950s, after moving to New York to become a writer. She completed the novel in 1957 and published it, with revisions, in 1960, just before the peak of the American civil rights movement.

At that time, all these things were afecting the "atmosphere":
Civil war
Economic depression
The dust bowl
Racial segregation
Northern and southern differences in USA

Fonts: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/context.html
http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/mockingbird/historical.htm
http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/mockingbird/historical.htm